With today's high salaries, long term contracts, and corporate penetration of the ownership ranks, it is… — Andrew Zimbalist
With today's high salaries, long term contracts, and corporate penetration of the ownership ranks, it is commonplace to hear commentators rue baseball's growing commercialization, claiming it is undermining the aesthetics and competitive spirit of the game. In fact baseball's growing commercialism has been a constant since the 1860s.
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