# Quote — Andrew Zimbalist, Baseball And Billions

> Consider for instance, the facts that Jose Canseco was picked in the fifteenth round of the amateur draft, Roger Clemens the twelfth, Ryne Sandberg the twentieth, and Nolan Ryan the tenth.

- 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: 111
- 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/consider-for-instance

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> 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)