Diamond Mines: Baseball & Labor (Sports and Entertainment) [Paperback]

Paul D. Staudohar (Editor), Alvin L. Hall (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); 1st edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815606559
• ISBN-13: 978-0815606550
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,448,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Essay Pieces, August 4, 2011

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A Sports Administration Professor of mine recommended this book to anyone interested in getting into baseball. I am glad I didn't pick it up until the end of my college career because some of the essays are heavy in Law and Economics, and even as an economics major I struggled though small parts of the book.

The book is a compilation of essays about baseball's labor disputes. The book chronicles Landmark cases, the Economics behind why each side wants what they want, why they get what they get and the history of all of baseballs labor disputes. The 10 separate essays usually cover a more quantitative or qualitative point. While understanding of Economics and Law would be really helpful, they are not absolutely necessary to understanding this book. If you do not have great insight in these areas but are still interested in the topic, this book will still be of use to you, since only a few parts of a few of the essays go into real depth.

Also note the publication date, since the book has been published the NFL has had a lockout and agreed to an agreement and the NBA is in a current lockout. The book does briefly describe the differences in leagues and in their opinion, why each league has had varying success in their negotiations (from the players side), thus there will not be updated information the version I am reviewing.

This book is appropriate for at the lowest level an intelligent High Schooler. As I said, some essays are heavy Law or Economics, and some are more Historical narratives telling the story behind all of this. In the end, a good book for this interested in baseball and how it got to, and through its labor dispute.