Major league losers : the real cost of sports and who's paying for it

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = ⅸ
• 1 Subsidizing Sports : The Real Economics of Cities and Professional Teams = 3
• 2 Why Are Sports So Important to So Many People? = 30
• 3 Maintaining Scarcity : Why All Cities That Want Teams Can't Have Them = 74
• 4 What Do Teams Really Mean for a City's Economy? = 129
• 5 How Do Governments Make Money from Sports? = 79
• 6 Sports and Downtown Development : Indianapolis's Effort to Go from IndianaNOplace to IndianaSPORTSplace / MARK S. ROSENTRAUB ; MICHAEL PRZYLSKI = 207
• 7 Sports and Downtown Development Ⅱ : Cleveland, the Mistake by the Lake, and the Burning of the Cuyahoga = 242
• 8 Reviving the Glory of Days Past : St. Louis's Blitz to Save Its Image, Identity, and Teams / DONALD PHARES ; MARK S. ROSENTRAUB = 286
• 9 Sports and Economic Development North of the Border : Baseball Subsidies with a Canadian Flavor and a French Accent / ROBERT WHELAN ; MARK S. ROSENTRAUB = 321
• 10 Can Small Regions Afford Professional Sports? Cincinnati's and Pittsburgh's Ride to the Rescue or Fade into the Sunset / DAVID SWINDELL ; MARK S. ROSENTRAUB = 368
• 11 Fights Within the Family : Suburbs and Center Cities in a Battle for the Intangible Benefits from Sports / BY SAM NUNN ; MARK S. ROSENTRAUB = 418
• 12 Surviving Sports = 448
• Notes = 479
• References 484
• Contributors = 496
• Index = 499