"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."

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

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

“While Babe Ruth's $80,000 in 1930 was eighty times the average U.S. income, Don Mattingly's $3.4 million in 1991 was 160 times the average.”

“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 of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.”

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

“Between 1903 and 1991 the value of the Yankees appreciated at a compound annual rate of 11.4 percent.”