Andrew Zimbalist

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1. Before becoming governor, Nelson Rockefeller offered to buy the Dodgers to keep them in New York.

   p. 126

2. 

   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.

   p. 111

3. 

   Perhaps if movie theaters also played the national anthem before their main attractions, the Internal Revenue Service would allow Hollywood studios to depreciate their actors.

   p. 35

4. 

   It is true that I described antisocial, parsimonious, sanctimonious, and wasteful behavior by the owners over the years, but baseball's problem is structural, not individual. Put any individual into a position of power with an opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars in an industry that is on a cultural pedestal and protected from all forms of competition, and the odds are against the second coming of Lee Iacocca or Ralph Nader.

5. 

   Baseball's popularity and, more so, it's revenues continue to increase.

   p. 168

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