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• catalog abstract "Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants - a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms - by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal." "Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. According to Euchner, sports franchises have this greater leverage, at least in part, because of their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. As a result, civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.".
• catalog contributor b4111723.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description ""Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable.".
• catalog description "1. Sports Politics: Teams, Local Identity, and Urban Development -- 2. Sports as an Industry -- 3. Local Political Economy and Sports -- 4. Los Angeles: Raided and Raider -- 5. Baltimore: City of Defensive Renaissance -- 6. Chicago: Whither the White Sox? -- 7. Sports and the Dependent City.".
• catalog description "According to Euchner, sports franchises have this greater leverage, at least in part, because of their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. As a result, civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.".
• catalog description "Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants - a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms - by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 213 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Playing the field.".
• catalog identifier "0801845726 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Playing the field.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Playing the field.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "796/.0973 20".
• catalog subject "GV706.35 .E93 1993".
• catalog subject "Metropolitan areas United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Sports Economic aspects United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Sports Political aspects United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Sports and state United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Sports franchises Location United States Case studies.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Sports Politics: Teams, Local Identity, and Urban Development -- 2. Sports as an Industry -- 3. Local Political Economy and Sports -- 4. Los Angeles: Raided and Raider -- 5. Baltimore: City of Defensive Renaissance -- 6. Chicago: Whither the White Sox? -- 7. Sports and the Dependent City.".
• catalog title "Playing the field : why sports teams move and cities fight to keep them / Charles C. Euchner.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".