Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]. First printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches; 236 by 158 mm. xiv, 213 pages. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; the jacket features a photo of the Camden Yards baseball park in Baltimore. Book has narrow black ink line (publisher's mark) across bottom page edges near spine, but is otherwise in fine condition; vey good jacket has two light creases and a quarter-inch tear at the top of the front panel. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #452
ISBN: 0801845726
An examination of the interplay of baseball and football teams and their cities in Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore. Signed by the author in blue ink on the half-title page. The author, who was an assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, when the book was published, later wrote the successful baseball book The Last Nine Innings.
Price: $8.00