
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252078668
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The Rise of the National Basketball Association
Author: David G. Surdam
Published: January 1, 2012
REVIEWS
“Surdam’s book represents the best and probably the only solid study of major-league baseball’s economic situation during the Depression.”—Dorothy Seymour Mills, New York Journal of Books
“With the American economy struggling, major-league baseball attendance falling for the fourth consecutive year and the Los Angeles Dodgers in bankruptcy, David George Surdam’s Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats about the game’s Depression-era troubles is certainly timely. Mr. Surdam, who teaches economics at the University of Northern Iowa, comes to his task armed with a fan’s enthusiasm, an economist’s tool kit and a certain dissatisfaction with previous analyses—including my own—of the evolution of the baseball business.”—Henry D. Fetter, Wall Street Journal