At colleges and business schools, Warsaw talks emotionally about the agents, the owners, the players and the fans in the sports industry run rampant with self-promotion and greed. He talks about the abuses and inspires change. If there's a book about sports leadership, Jim Warsaw should be a chapter alongside David Stern and Ted Turner. Just the recent sports news can make Warsaw's head shake like those bobble-head dolls Warsaw and his father first made famous at ballparks in the 1950s and 1960s. We're in an era of this business of the player.
Players are the show and they've got sports by the throat.
He sees players holding out, players getting suspended, players traded without warning. I look to Jim for advice on sports, on business and on life. When Dolich was in the Oakland A's front office, he worked with Warsaw to plan promotions and figure out ways to fill the seats. And I have hope that something positive will happen with some cooperation and vision. That's what my father and I started with 30 years ago.