In his diverse, exciting, and very active forty-five-year legal
career, spent mainly in the world of professional sports, attorney
Robert O Swados has worn many hats - owner, league executive,
counsel, and franchise builder. In this wide-ranging and
good-humoured memoir, Swados offers many behind-the-scenes insights
into the players, coaches, executives, and owners who have created
today's sports entertainment industry. Swados describes his early
involvement in professional sports through his efforts in the 1960s
to bring a Major League Baseball franchise to his hometown of
Buffalo, NY. The deal was so close that a "New York Daily" News
headline erroneously announced that new franchises would go to San
Diego and Buffalo. But things really got interesting when in 1969
Swados helped Seymour Knox III and Northrup Knox to establish the
Buffalo Sabres. Thus began an exciting thirty-year journey through
the ups and downs of the National Hockey League. As part owner,
vice chairman, and counsel of the Sabres, Swados has had many
opportunities to 'score from the crease', and sometimes the action
behind the scenes is just as rough and tumble as that on the
ice.;He tells many fascinating tales about his dealings with
winning coaches including Scotty Bowman, with General Managers
Punch Imlach and John Muckler, with owner John McMullen, and with
commissioners John Ziegler and Gary Bettman, among others. He also
talks frankly about the impact of Adelphia's bankruptcy on the fate
of the Sabres and about the obsessions and frustrations of the 2004
NHL lockout. Perhaps no one in professional sports has had such an
engaging and productive view. For hockey fans in the US and Canada,
especially Buffalo Sabres fans, and anyone interested in the
business of bigtime sports, Robert Swados's entertaining and
informative story is a must-read.
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