Re: moneyball

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He was a finalist to be our dean a few years ago.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:04:05PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
>  Andy Zimbalist has a book or two:
>
> Baseball and billions : a probing look inside the big business of our
> national pastime (1994)
>
> Sports, jobs, and taxes : the economic impact of sports teams and stadiums
> (1997)
>
> Unpaid professionals : commercialism and conflict in big-time college sports
> (1999)
>
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> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Forstater, Mathew [mailto:ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:39 PM
> > To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] moneyball
> >
> >
> > Marc Lavoie at U. of Ottawa has written on sports in Canada,
> > some of it
> > on discrimination against French-Canadians.  A friend of mine from the
> > New School did his dissertation on political economy of baseball under
> > the late David M. Gordon's supervision. A U Mass grad student
> > also did a
> > political economy of baseball dissertation a few years back.
> >

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