# Quote — Andrew Zimbalist, Baseball And Billions

> Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.

- Author: [Andrew Zimbalist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist.md)
- Book: [Baseball And Billions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions.md)
- Page: 142
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimbalist#Baseball_And_Billions_-_Updated_edition_-_(1992)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/baseball-performance-is-an-outcome

## More from this book

> Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.

p. 47 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/baseballs-owners-must.md)

> How is it that the average CEO in Japan receives an annual income of $300,000 while the average CEO in the United States earns $2.8 million?

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/how-is-it-that.md)

> It is well to recall that in 112 years of major league baseball, there has been only one bankruptcy filing.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/it-is-well.md)