82 Games.
http://www.82games.com
This site features articles and fine grained statistical information
on both the court and front office side of professional basketball.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Adam, John
Stuff -- Baseball Business.
http://yknot.terapad.com/
Numerous links and articles about player salaries, trades, team worth,
and other baseball business related topics. This site is part of a
much larger site created by a professor of economics at Queens College in New York City.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
URL
The Biz of Baseball.
http://www.bizofbaseball.com
Up until now, there have been resources for all sports
business, but BoB.com marks the first all inclusive location
for news, interviews, data, and articles dedicated
to just the game of baseball and the business that drives it.
Source:
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/
Bloom, Howard.
Howard Bloom's Sports Business News.
http://www.sportsbusinessnews.com/
In its nine years, SBN has evolved into the largest
and one of the most influential sports industry publications.
Source:
http://www.sportsbusinessnews.com
/Public/About_SBN
/splash.php
Brewster, Josh et. al.
Hockeytalk.biz.
http://www.hockeytalk.biz
This extremely colorful site offers radio broadcasts, statistics, and articles on both major and minor league ice hockey.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Cagan, Joanna and Neil deMause
Field of Schemes.
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/
Fieldofschemes.com is the companion website to
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit,
by Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause. Since 1998, we have
been casting a critical eye on the roughly $2 billion a year in
public subsidies that go toward building new pro sports facilities.
Source:
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/
news/about.html
The Hockey News.
http://www.thehockeynews.com
The Hockey News gives you the inside scoop on hockey like no other
publication, interviews, photos, stats and predictions,
team stories from the best writers in all 30 NHL cities,
coverage of minor pro, college and junior leagues, [and] weekly features that take you inside the game.
Source:
http://www.thehockeynews.com
Karchner, Rick et. al.
Sports Law Blog.
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/
This blog offers detailed and in depth articles on current legal issues effecting
sports. Emphasis is on major league professional athletics. The authors are law students and attorneys.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Lenchiner, Jeffrey et. al.
Inside Hoops.
http://www.insidehoops.com
Founded in 1999, InsideHoops.com, a professional, respected,
experienced source of basketball news, views and analysis, steadily grew
to become the hottest basketball website on the planet.
Source:
http://www.insidehoops.com/
about.shtml
National Football League
NFL Labor News.
http://nfllabor.com/
Current news about player salaries, free angency,
trades, and labor negotiations all appears on
this site. Because the National Football League
runs this site, it has a strong pro-management bias.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
National Football League Players Association
NFL Players Association.
https://www.nflpa.com/
The National Football League Players Association is the union for professional
football players in the National Football League. Established in 1956,
the NFLPA has a long history of assuring proper recognition and
representation of players’ interests.
Source:
http://www.nflpa.org/
about-us/
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ProSports Daily.com
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/
The staff at ProSports Daily.com gathers links on
games, gossip, team news, and more for baseball,
football, hockey and basketball and offers it all in a
blog-like format. The site also has forums for fans.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Sports News -- The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/public/
page/news-sports
-scores.html
Features articles about many aspects of sports from all over the world.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
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Abrams, Brett.
Capital Sporting Grounds: A History of Stadium and Ballpark Construction in Washington DC.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.
Call Number: GV416.N38 A37 2009 (Ebrary)
The stadium for the expansion Washington Nationals baseball team
cost more than $600 million and while opponents
decried the waste of taxpayer money, supporters said
the stadium would generate economic development. The district’s past
stadiums, tracks and Olympics facilities are described
in this history, along with their political backdrops.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Atkinson, Michael Editor.
Battleground Sports.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
Call Number: GV706.5 .B375 2009
Engaging and accessible to a wide variety of readers,
this fascinating reference illustrates how sports controversies
reflect the historically enduring and changing nature of our
broader cultures, and the social battles we engage on
a day-to-day basis surrounding the struggles for
equality, debates about social violence, the ethics of
competition, the politics of civic life, the creation of
global communities, and the State's role in protecting citizens.
Source:
http://www.greenwood.com
Berri, David J., Martin B. Schmidt, and Stacey L. Brook.
The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern Sport.
Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2006.
Call Number: GV716 .B47 2006 (Ebrary)
The book names names, and makes it abundantly
clear that much of the decision making of coaches
and general managers does not hold up to
an analysis of the numbers. Whether you are a fantasy
league fanatic or a casual weekend fan, much
of what you believe about sports will change after reading this book.
Source:
http://www.sup.org
Bissiger, H. G.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream.
Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2003.
Call Number: GV958.P47 B57 2003
Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion
and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school
football has its own rabid hold over the faithful.
H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the
spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa,
a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where
the Permian High School Panthers have managed to
compile the winningest record in state annals.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Boyd, Todd and Kenneth L. Shropshire Eds
Basketball Jones: America Above the Rim.
New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Call Number:GV889.26 .B28 2000
It began with Magic, Bird, and Dr. J. Then came Michael.
The Dream Team. The WNBA. And, most recently, "Spree" Latrell
Sprewell--American Dream or American Nightmare?--the embodiment
of everything many believe is wrong--and others believe is exciting--about the game.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
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Burk, Robert Fredrick.
More than a Game: Players, Owners & American Baseball since 1921.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Call Number: GV880 .B869 2001 (Ebrary)
As a microcosm of society, organized baseball
has survived its share of battles over racism, pay
inequity, unionizing and scandals. Here, Burk, chair
of the history department at Muskingum College, follows up
Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American
Baseball to 1920 with an in-depth look at the sport
as a business from its post-WWI golden age to beyond the 1994 players' strike.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Colangelo Jerry and Len Sherman.
How You Play the Game: Lessons for Life from the Billion-Dollar Business of Sports.
New York: Amacom, 1999.
Call Number: GV697.C63 A3 1999 (Netlibrary)
The owner of the Phoenix Suns (National Basketball
Association) and the new Arizona Diamondbacks
(major league baseball) gives us his autobiography
from his humble beginnings in Chicago to his current status
as the owner of these two successful franchises. Colangelo
discusses his accomplishments and failures in the sports
industry and offers insight into how professional sports
work and what they must do to remain successful,
especially through marketing, community service, and ethics.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Curry, Timothy J., Kent Schwirian and Rachel A Woldoff.
High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment.
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press 2004.
Call Number: GV706.5 .C869 2004
The authors analyzed the building of Nationwide Arena,
home to the NHL franchise Columbus Blue Jackets, and to
a lesser extent, the building of a stadium
for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. They
used media reports, official documents, and in-depth
interviews with 34 of the people involved in the ballot issue
to study the public process of how the stadiums were built.
Source:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/
archive/highstak.htm
Kern, William S. Editor.
The Economics of Sports.
Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000.
Call Number: GV583 .E36 2000 (Ebrary)
This collection shows how big-time sports has
outgrown its role as a simple pastime. Fueled by fans' rising
disposable incomes and the promise of jobs and local economic
development, professional and major college sports have
evolved into a multibillion-dollar economic sector
that produces winners and losers both on and off the field.
Source:
http://www.upjohninst.org/
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Marcano Guevera, Arturo J. and David P. Fidle.
Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Call Number: GV880.22 .M37 2002 (Ebrary)
Stealing Lives takes a long, hard look at the
exploitation and abuse of boys and young men
by Major League Baseball teams searching Latin America for
cheap baseball talent--placing that hunt in the context
of the globalization of baseball. In telling the tragic
story of young Alexis Quiroz, a Venezuelan teenager who
dreamed of playing for the Chicago Cubs, the
authors also reveal Major League Baseball's pattern of violation
of human rights and labor standards in its practices in Latin America.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
McDonald, Mark A. and George R. Milne.
Cases in Sport Marketing.
Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 1999.
Call Number: GV716 .M39 1999 (Netlibrary)
Cases in Sport Marketing, simulates real-life scenarios for sport
marketers as exhibition games in the preseason simulate
the regular season for professional athletes.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
O'Connor, Ian.
The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High Stakes Business of High School Ball.
Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2005.
Call Number: GV884.T44 O36 2005
Follows the journey to stardom of a promising young high
school basketball player as, already sporting a multi-million
dollar sneaker deal, he prepares to make the jump directly to the NBA.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Quirk, James P. and Rodney Fort.
Hardball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Call Number: GV716 .Q566 1999
Argues that professional sports use the monopoly power
of the leagues to blackmail cities into financing stadiums and
arenas, and suggests a solution to the problem.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Resin, Irving J., Philip Kotler, and Ben Shields.
The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace.
. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.
Call Number: GV716 .R45 2006 (Ebrary)
The Elusive Fan is a groundbreaking guide to engaging and
retaining today's fragmented, ever-shifting, and demanding sports fans.
Source:
http://www.theelusivefan.com/
Ross, Stephen F. and Stefan Szymanski.
Fans of the World Unite! : A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers.
Stanford, CA: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2008.
Call Number: GV583 .R675 2008 (Ebrary)
Fans of the World, Unite! is a clarion call to sports fans.
Appealing to anyone who is in despair due to the greed and
incompetence of team owners, this book proposes a
significant restructuring of sports leagues.
Source:
http://www.sup.org
Sperber, Murray A.
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education.
New York: Owl Books, 2001.
Call Number: GV351 .S63 2001
Alluding to the ancient Roman practice of placating people with
cheap bread and ostentatious spectacles, Sperber argues that
an ever-growing number of state universities lure undergraduates
to their schools with halcyon images of booze-filled parties
and prominent sports programs while abandoning their commitment to the students' education.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Stein, Gil.
Power Plays: An Inside Look at the Big Business of the National Hockey League.
Seacaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1997.
Call Number: GV847.8.N3 S84 1997
This explosive book, by the most recent past president of the NHL,
reveals what really goes on behind the scenes in professional hockey.
Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal vignettes written with total
candor, Power Plays is as exciting as winning the Stanley Cup.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Weiner, Jay.
Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles.
Minnneapolis, NN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Call Number: GV716 .W43 2000 (Ebrary)
In Stadium Games, veteran Minneapolis Star Tribune
reporter Jay Weiner zooms in on Minnesota's fifty-year history
with pro sports and the issues contributing to the bid
for a new stadium for the Minnesota Twins,
along the way providing a big-picture evaluation of national sports economics.
Source:
http://www.upress.umn.edu
Yost, Mark.
Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps: How the NFL Became the Most Successful Sports League in History.
Chicago, IL: Kaplan Publ, 2006
Call Number: GV955.5.N35 Y67 2006 (Ebrary)
The NFL is the most successful professional sport. The league's secret
to success is sound business practices like revenue sharing and a salary cap.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Zimbalist, Andrew S.
Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Call Number: GV351 .Z56 1999
Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism
and provides an important complement to university education.
Or so its apologists would have us believe. As Andrew
Zimbalist shows in this unprecedented analysis, college sports is
really a massively commercialized industry based on activities that are often
irrelevant and even harmful to education.
Source:
http://press.princeton.edu/
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