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Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball (Paperback)
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As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were
decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the
national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player's
Association was able to finally tear down baseball's permanent
reserve clause?the contract language that essentially bound a
player to a single team until he was released or traded?and owners
and sportswriters again insisted that the competitive balance of
the game was threatened by player greed. The rhetoric from the
baseball establishment did not match the on-field reality. From
1981 to 1993, the first significant era of free agency in the
sport's history, all 12 of the National League's teams finished
first at least once, as did 11 American League teams. From 1994
through 2001, however, there was a pronounced separation in
strength between the haves and have-nots, as the local revenue
streams of major markets such as New York and Boston overwhelmed
the capabilities of small market franchises in such cities as
Tampa, Montreal, and Milwaukee. This work examines how the sport
has prospered and suffered during the free agency era, based in
large part on how the game's various revenue streams are allocated.
It further examines the revenue sharing plan in baseball's current
collective bargaining agreement, identifying flaws that may well
undermine its long-term effectiveness. It also explores how the
baseball expertise of some organizations has allowed them to
flourish despite the lack of revenue.
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