Leveling the Playing Field
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The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, fans, and taxpayers. Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all American competitive sports.

Table of Contents:
Contents Prologue: Sports on Trial I The Integrity of Sports 1 Misconduct on the Field 2 Honoring Civil Rights in Sports 3 The Deadliest Sin in Sports 4 The Sports War on Drugs 5 Athletes as Role Models 6 The Moral Ideal for American Sports II Owners versus Players 7 Show Us the Money 8 Sports Joins the Union 9 Opening the Flood-Gates 10 What Antitrust Did for Players 11 How to Level the Player Field 12 Salary Sharing among Players III Owners versus Owners -- and Fans 13 The Brave New World of Franchise Free Agency 14 How Far Have We Traveled? 15 What the Law Should Do with Raiders 16 Stadium Socialism or a Stadium Cap? 17 Sports in Intellectual Space 18 What Should Leagues Be Like? 19 Expand or Break up the Big Leagues? 20 A Better World for Fans Epilogue. A Performance-Enhancing Law for Sports Acknowledgements Index

About the Author :
Paul Weiler is the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University.

Review :
An insightful and penetrating book about the problems of professional sports leagues in the United States...Although most of Leveling the Playing Field deals with economic and legal issues affecting pro sports...most interesting...are Weiler's ideas about how to balance the field, improve equitable treatment of athletes and avoid labor unrest...Leveling the Playing Field is a levelheaded, sophisticated and important look into what ails professional sports in the United States and what can be done about it. -- Andrew Zimbalist Washington Post [A] keen-edged dissection of modern professional sports in America. -- Mike Leary Baltimore Sun [Leveling the Playing Field] may be the best work in the field...[It] offers an accessible, comprehensive analysis of the nature of the professional sports enterprise, and presents the author's vision for how it should be reordered. To my knowledge, no one has done this before. Rich and provocative...[Weiler's] book is chock-full of inventive, provocative, even audacious, proposals for reforming the four major professional team sports [baseball, basketball, football and hockey]...This is a book that cannot be ignored. Leveling the Playing Field likely will become the starting point for any discussion of the state of the North American sports enterprise at the turn of the new century. -- Roger I. Abrams Jurist: Books-on-Law This provocative book combines the broad knowledge of an all-seasons sports fan with the clarity of an anti-trust lawyer. Weiler...approaches major league sports as a special study in cartel theory...[He] writes lucidly and persuasively; rarely has the surface of professional sports been so revealingly pared away. -- Allen D. Boyer New York Times Book Review Leave it to a professor from Harvard Law School to untangle the dizzying realities of contemporary sports, then offer valid proposals for dealing with escalating salaries, antisocial off-field player behavior, revenue sharing and stadium quandaries. USA Today Baseball Weekly 20001101 Making sense of the business of professional sports demands advanced degrees in law and commerce. Who but the experts can fathom the complexities of hard and soft salary caps, Group Two free agencies, revenue-sharing and the intricacies of collective-bargaining agreements? Happily, Paul Weiler has arrived to answer the literate...fan's many questions while providing a road map for players, owners, and governments about how to put professional sports on a better financial footing while retaining fan loyalty...Weiler has delivered a wonderfully balanced, nuanced, and richly detailed look at professional sports. -- Jeffrey Simpson Globe and Mail 20001118 Paul Weiler has been at the forefront for a long time as an expert in sports and labor. He has been consulted in many of the cases that helped shape the way sports changed in the 70s and 80s on the way to the collective bargaining agreements that all leagues are now working with. He has a better grasp of this subject than anyone I know. When it comes to sports law, Paul Weiler knows the answer before you ask the question. -- Will McDonough Boston Globe The idea that the American legal system can improve something for the public benefit is indeed novel, and many potential readers may be intrigued by such an unusual, first-time-for-everything prospect...The discussion finally reveals major league sport for what it really is: a vast funneling operation by which public money is transferred into the pockets of a few playing partners. -- John Barnes ISUMA


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  • ISBN-13: 9780674045026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans
  • ISBN-10: 0674045025
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 381


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