Smart Ball
Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a qsmart powerq model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.He piously maintained that he was giving his lower-class recruits a lifetime opportunity: aI offered millhands, plowboys, high school kids a better way of life. ... claimed to adhere to the capitalist teachings of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in his essay, aThe Uses of Money, a with three ... His prevailing nickname, the Mahatma, came from Mohandas K. Gandhi via sportswriter Tom Meaney, who citedanbsp;...
| Title | : | Smart Ball |
| Author | : | Robert F. Lewis |
| Publisher | : | Univ. Press of Mississippi - 2010-03-05 |
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