The money pitch : baseball free agency and salary arbitration /

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Professional baseball players have always been well paid. In 1869, Harry Wright paid his Cincinnati Red Stockings about seven times what an average working-man earned. Today, on average, players earn more than fifty times the average worker's salary. In fact, on December 12, 1998, pitcher Kevin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abrams, Roger I., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Baseball players > Salaries, etc. > United States.
Baseball players > United States > Salaries, etc.
Joueurs de base-ball > États-Unis > Traitements, indemnités, etc.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > General.
Baseball players > Salaries, etc.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A.G. Spalding and the development of baseball professionalism
  • Baseball's salary system
  • The baseball marketplace; economics and game theory
  • The ballplayers, the owners, the agents, and the union
  • Roy Hobbs and the New York Knights; a salary negotiation
  • Ty Cobb and negotiation hardball
  • Salary arbitration in operation
  • The free agency auction
  • Player attitude and disloyalty.

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