1. The Business of Major League Baseball

2. It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been
playing all your life.
--Mickey Mantle
Yankees Hall-of-Fame
Outfielder ( )

3. Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business and too much of a business to be called a sport.
--Phil K. Wrigley
Cubs owner ( )

5. Free market economics is the process of driving enterprises out of business. Sports league economics
is the process of keeping enterprises in business on an equal basis. There is nothing like a sports league. Nothing.
--NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue
(Sports Illustrated, Sept. 10, 1990)

7. well run club has a regularly recurring reasonable
The goal of a well-designed league is to produce adequate competitive balance. By this standard,
Major League Baseball is not now well designed Proper competitive balance will not exist until every
well run club has a regularly recurring reasonable
hope of reaching postseason play.
The Report of the Independent Members of the Commissioner’s Blue Ribbon Panel
On Baseball Economics, July 2000.

9. Entertainment– not autos, not steel, not financial services– is fast becoming the driving wheel of
the new world economy.
--Michael J. Wolf
Author, The Entertainment Economy

10. The Business of Major League Baseball

11. Club Business Assessment & Ranking
November 2011

17. could one day afford to buy a baseball team.
What has happened is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you
could one day afford to buy a baseball team.
And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
--George Steinbrenner
Yankees owner ( , )

18. The Business of Major League Baseball