Playing the Field
Subtitle: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801849732
Subjects: Sport & leisure industries; Sporting venues; Sports & Recreation; Humor; Sports; Government - State & Provincial; History; Reference; Economic aspects; Political Science / State & Local Government; Political Science : Government - State & Provincial; Sports & Recreation / History; Sports & Recreation : Reference; General
First sentence: As the Chicago White Sox threatened in 1988 to move to Florida unless the Illinois legislature approved funding for a new stadium, labor activist Thomas H. Geoghegan tried to convince state and municipal officials to resist the team's demands.