Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports
Subtitle: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions
Publisher: Quorum Books
Published: August 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781567201932
Subjects: Business strategy; Sport & leisure industries; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; General; Franchises; Sports Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Marketing; Business/Economics; USA; Government & Business; Industries - General; Business & Economics / Government & Business; Professional sports; Sports franchises; Marketing - General; United States; Economic aspects; Location
First sentence: "In 1958, during the courtship between Los Angeles and the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Walter O'Malley, one city official promised him the moon, but he asked for more."