Reviews for Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore

The average rating for Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-24 00:00:00 Brian Payne Our story begins in 1953, when baseball impresario Bill Veeck sold his St. Louis Browns (which had begun life in 1901 as the Milwaukee Brewers, one of eight original American League teams) to a group of Baltimore investors; the new Baltimore owners stole the Orioles name from a local AAA team which then moved to Richmond, VA as the Virginians. Miller covers the team through about 1989, when owner Edward Bennett Williams died, his widow sold the team to investor Eli Jacobs, and the Camden Yards ballpark was just a gleam in all of our greedy, baseball-lusting eyes. He writes about the team's ups and downs on the field, as well as the management-labor conflicts across the majors, changes in labor agreements and salaries, the conversion of the minor leagues to a major league farm system, and racial issues, over this time period. It's a bit of a dry read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-31 00:00:00 Sam Cladoosby Surprisingly in-depth discussion of baseball history, focusing on finances, socioeconomic factors and fan interest from the 1950's to the late 1980's, with the spotlight obviously on Baltimore and its Orioles.