Andrew Zimbalist

"Baseballs exemption from antitrust statutes, based on the notion that it was not involved in interstate commerce, erroneous back in 1922 and more so in the 1950s, became even more anomalous in 1957, w…"

"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 under…"

"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."

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

"The first baseball game ever televised was a battle for fourth place in the Ivy League between Columbia and Princeton on May 17, 1939."

"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…"

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

"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."