Cap in Hand: How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them by Bruce Dowbiggin, Ryan Gauthier
English | September 11th, 2018 | ISBN: 1770413936 | 248 Pages | EPUB | 3.71 MB
Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the level at which those cities might best compete.