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Location Call # Volume Status
 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  GV716 .W43 2000    AVAILABLE  
Author Weiner, Jay, 1954-
Title Stadium games : fifty years of big league greed and bush league boondoggles / Jay Weiner.
OCLC 42733656
ISBN 0816634343
9780816634347
0816634351
9780816634354
Publisher Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2000]
©2000
Description xxiii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s Professional sports -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Stadiums -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Sports franchises -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Other
Subject heading/s		 Professional sports -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01078530
Sports franchises -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01130671
Stadiums -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01131276
Minnesota -- Minneapolis. (OCoLC)fst01204260
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-503).
Contents If you build it : Minnesota's quest to become major league -- Something to cheer for : the Met welcomes the Vikings and the Twins -- Where the sun don't shine : Calvin and Max move under the teflon sky -- I'm only human : understanding Carl Pohlad -- Off target : Norm's stars go South along with Harv and Marv's fortunes -- I gotta get me one of these : Carl's edifice complex -- Falling in love with the deal : the governor's men go to bat for Carl -- Spilling the beans : the Twins' crime of omission -- It sure looked like a loan : Carl's "contribution" hits the fan -- Holding up the Indians : Arne plays the race card -- Leaving it to Beaver : the special session fake out -- "Baseball lives if you push green" : the public calls Carl's bluff -- Resuscitating the deal : Norm and Sharon wrestle for riverfront baseball -- Building a public trust : striking a fair deal with pro sports.
Summary STADIUM GAMES begins with the events leading to the arrival of the Twins and Vikings to the state in 1961 and traces subsequent controversies about professional sports in the region up to the present.
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