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When pro football players formed a union to stand up against the
NFL for their own interests, they chose lawyer Ed Garvey as their
Executive Director. The NFL Players Association (NFLPA), would take
on the NFL over player contracts, collective bargaining agreements,
and antitrust suits. It lobbied for players' free agency, contract
rights, and impartial arbitration of disciplinary disputes. Garvey
navigated strikes, lockouts, scabs, stooges, lies, as well as the
sports media complex-to maintain players' dignity. According to the
league, the players were to take what they were given and "never
ask why." In Never Ask "Why," journalist Chuck Cascio presents the
late Garvey's rich account of the early years of the NFLPA, taking
readers among the players as they held the league accountable to
play fair. Learning from their mistakes, the NFLPA would succeed in
curbing commissioner Pete Rozelle's disciplinary power and striking
down the Rozelle Rule's absolute control over free agency. Garvey
tells the intimate stories of how pro football players, rivals on
the field, rallied together to stand up for themselves. He worked
tirelessly to change a system that exploited players and even
controlled the media. In the end, Garvey shows how the NFLPA
transformed the state of pro sports leagues today and how, even
still, they work to keep down the players on whose backs they
profit.
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the
stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at
the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer
Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally
Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey
enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks
on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and
legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have
used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows,
decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws
related to privacy, defamation, and publicity--areas pertinent to
the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer
alike. She also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought
relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart
of issues separating individual rights from the public's perceived
right to know. A fascinating exploration of a still-evolving
phenomenon, Game Faces is an essential look at the legal playing
fields that influence our enjoyment of sports.
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the
stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at
the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer
Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally
Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey
enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks
on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and
legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have
used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows,
decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws
related to privacy, defamation, and publicity--areas pertinent to
the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer
alike. She also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought
relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart
of issues separating individual rights from the public's perceived
right to know. A fascinating exploration of a still-evolving
phenomenon, Game Faces is an essential look at the legal playing
fields that influence our enjoyment of sports.
Female Gladiators is the first book to examine legal and social
battles over the right of women to participate with men in contact
sports. The impetus to begin legal proceedings was the 1972
enactment of Title IX, which prohibited discrimination in
educational settings, but it was the Equal Protection Clause of the
U.S. Constitution and the equal rights amendments of state
constitutions that ultimately opened doors. Despite court rulings,
however, many in American society resisted-and continue to
resist-allowing girls in dugouts and other spaces traditionally
defined as male territories. Inspired, women and girls began to
demand access to the contact sports which society had previously
deemed too strenuous or violent for them to play. When the leagues
continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls
went to court. Sarah K. Fields's Female Gladiators is the only book
to examine the legal and social battles over gender and contact
sport that continue to rage today.
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