Published annually for the past 20 years, this is the one guide every true baseball fan needs. This new edition offers a complete recap of the exciting 2003 baseball season.
Baseball America's 2007 Almanac offers a complete recap of the 2006 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues. The Almanac has organization, team, and player statistics and season reviews covering all of professional, amateur, and youth baseball. It is also the only volume to feature in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels.
The 2005 season was one to remember at all levels of baseball. And no book offers you a more complete recap of the season than BA's annual Almanac, now in its 24th year. All the stories, all the stats-from the major leagues to the minor leagues to college and high school ranks, no one covers the game more thoroughly than Baseball America.
The Business of Sports, Second Edition is a comprehensive collection of readings that focus on the multibillion-dollar sports industry and the dilemmas faced by todays sports business leaders. It contains a dynamic set of readings to provide a complete overview of major sports business issues. The Second Edition covers professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports, and highlights the major issues that impact each of these broad categories. The Second Edition continue to provide insight from a variety of stakeholders in the industry and cover the major business disciplines of management, marketing, finance, information technology, accounting, ethics and law. In addition, it features concise introductions, targeted discussion questions, and graphs and tables to convey relevant financial data and other statistics discussed. This book is designed for current and future sports business leaders as well as those interested in the inner-workings of the industry.
Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
Offering a complete recap of the 2007 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, and amateur leagues, the almanac also features player statistics and season reviews.
Offering a complete recap of the 2004 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues, this volume also features in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels.
Who else are you going to depend on to wrap up the 2001 season? From the major leagues, to the minor leagues, to the college and high school ranks, no one covers the game more thoroughly than Baseball America. And no book offers you a more complete recap of the previous season than BA's annual Almanac, now in its 20th year. The 2002 Almanac is our largest ever -- 464 pages. It has all the major league news and statistics, an overview of each organization's season, the minor league year in review, comprehensive college coverage, a full recap of the 2001 draft and foreign and winter league coverage. You'll see lots of baseball annuals, but there are none as comprehensive as Baseball America's Almanac. Book jacket.