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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit

In the year since the hard cover edition, sports team owners have grown ever more ardent in their pleas of poverty. This expanded edition has the latest on controversies over hallowed ballparks like Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park, the New England Patriots' $375 million shakedown of Hanford, Conn., the Toronto Blue Jays' threat to move out of the state-of-the-art SkyDome, plus many more outrageous stadium swindles.Field of Schemes details how taxpayers, urban residents, and spots fans come out the losers every time — from Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen of Microsoft to New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, from the destruction of Tiger Stadium to the building of Camden Yards, the stories are all here.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781567511383
  • Genres
  • sports, baseball, business, politics
  • Release date
  • 2002