National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success
This brief analyzes each of the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the National League and their past regular-season and postseason records and financial performances while operating as competitive, popular, and profitable or unprofitable enterpris
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Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success
Frank P. Jozsa Jr. Tega Cay, South Carolina USA
ISSN 2191-5504 ISSN 2191-5512 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Economics ISBN 978-3-319-25992-5 ISBN 978-3-319-25993-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015955394 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To Laddie Sula, Lee Van Scyoc, and Gary Stone
Foreword
Widely understood by followers of the game, baseball achieved its distinction as our national pastime both through the calculated cultivation by owners, management, and the media and its emulation by the country’s youth in the sandlots and barnyards of America. Baseball’s development over the past century and a half mirrors those of the broader society with respect to the challenges associated with institutional, regulatory, and economic change. What Professor Frank P. Jozsa Jr.—the author of numerous books and articles on the sports industry—provides is twofold: first, a brief historical perspective of the National League highlighting the performance by each team as well as the outstanding managers and players and second, and what is unique in this text, is his discussion of the various factors associated with the success of each team as a business enterprise including what elements have contributed more than others to fan allegiance and what features are most important in determining the success of a team as a profitable organization. In this regard the book bridges the gap between those of us
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