Home Team (eBook)

Professional Sports and the American Metropolis

Michael N. Danielson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23112-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams play. It examines the relationships between the four major professional team sports--baseball, basketball, football, and hockey--and the cities that attach their names, their hearts, and their increasing amount of tax dollars to big league teams. From the names on their uniforms to the loyalties of their fans, teams are tied to the places in which they play. Nonetheless, teams, like other urban businesses, are affected by changes in their environments--like the flight of their customers to suburbs and changes in local political climates. In Home Team, professional sports are scrutinized in the larger context of the metropolitan areas that surround and support them. Michael Danielson is particularly interested in the political aspects of the connections between professional sports teams and cities. He points out that local and state governments are now major players in the competition for franchises, providing increasingly lavish publicly funded facilities for what are, in fact, private business ventures. As a result, professional sports enterprises, which have insisted that private leagues rather than public laws be the proper means of regulating games, have become powerful political players, seeking additional benefits from government, often playing off one city against another. The wide variety of governmental responses reflects the enormous diversity of urban and state politics in the United States and in the Canadian cities and provinces that host professional teams. Home Team collects a vast amount of data, much of it difficult to find elsewhere, including information on the relocation of franchises, expansion teams, new leagues, stadium development, and the political influence of the rich cast of characters involved in the ongoing contests over where teams will play and who will pay. Everyone who is interested in the present condition and future prospects of professional sports will be captivated by this informative and provocative new book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 13 line illus., 13 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Acocella, Nicholas • Advertising • Alamodome, San Antonio • All-America Football Conference • american football league • america's team • America West Arena, Phoenix • Andelman, Bob • anheuser-busch • arbitration • Arbut, Marcel • Astrodome, Houston • Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium • Attendance • Bairn, Dean • Ballpark in Arlington • baltimore ravens • Bargaining Power • Behring, Kenneth • bert bell • Betts, John Rickard • bidding • Big Business • Big League • Bond Buyer • Bond (finance) • Bonventre, Peter • Brookings Institution • Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) • budweiser • Buffalo News • Business Ethics • Buyout • Calgary, Alta • Camden Yards, Baltimore • Capital asset • Capitalism • Caracas • Caracas, Venezuela • Carroll Rosenbloom • Case study • Cavert, Robert • Chicago Bears • Cincinnati Enquirer • City Sports • Cleveland, Ohio • Coca-Cola Company • Comparative Advantage • Competition • Competition Law • Competitive advantage • competitiveness • Consideration • Cost–benefit analysis • cost overrun • culture and society • Customer • customer base • Dabney, Michael • Dallas Cowboys • Dayton • debt • Deep pocket • Denver, Colo • detroit tigers • Drawback • Economic Development • economic expansion • economic impact analysis • Economic Power • Economics • economist • El Hodiri, Mohammed • Eminent domain • Entrepreneurship • espn • Expense • Federal League • Ferguson, Thomas • Finance • Financial Distress • financial world • Fox Broadcasting • Franchise fee • Funding • Gate receipts • george halas • Georgia Dome, Atlanta • giants stadium • Globalization • Goldpaper, Sam • Greater Los Angeles Area • Gretsky, Wayne • Haas, Walter • Happy Chandler • Hartford, Conn • Headline • Hedges, Robert Lee • Henry Bienen • Hofheinz, Roy • houston chronicle • Illinois • income • indianapolis colts • Indianapolis Pacers • Internationalization • Investor • Kansas City Chiefs • Koch, Edward • Kuhn, Bowie • lamar hunt • Landry, Bernard • landslide victory • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Lipsitz, George • lobbying • Lobbying in the United States • lodging • Los Angeles Rams • Luxury box • Madrid, Spain • Market (economics) • Marketing • Market Value • Marriott, Willard • Maryland Stadium Authority • Memphis Southmen • metropolitan area • Miami Dolphins • Millennium Development Goals • National Football League • National Football League regular season • newspaper • new york giants • new york jets • nonprofit corporation • North American Free Trade Agreement • oakland raiders • obstacle • operating cost • Ownership • Ownership (psychology) • Oxford University Press • Park • Payment • Payroll • pete rozelle • policy studies • Political Economy • Political football • political machine • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Princeton University • Privatization • Professional football (gridiron) • Provision (accounting) • Public Expenditure • Public Interest • Public Policy • Public sector • Ralph Nader • Real estate appraisal • Regulation • Reprisal • Revenue • Revenue Sharing • Robert Irsay • Roone Arledge • salary • Secondary City • Site selection • Sonny Werblin • Southern California • Sponsor (commercial) • Sport industry • Subsidy • suburb • Superiority (short story) • Superstation • Supply (economics) • Sweetheart deal • Tampa Bay • Tax • Tax break • Taxpayer • Tax Rate • Tax Reform Act of 1986 • tax revenue • Technology • Ted Turner • Television Network • The New York Times • The Wall Street journal • Tim Mara • Tribune Media • United States Football League • urbanization • urban politics • Urban renewal • Use Tax • Voting • wayne huizenga • World Football League
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23112-5 / 0691231125
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23112-9 / 9780691231129