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Players : the story of sports and money, and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution Cover Image

Players : the story of sports and money, and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution / Matthew Futterman.

Futterman, Matthew, (author.).

Summary:

Traces the single-generation transformation of sports from a cottage industry to a global business, reflecting on how elite athletes, agents, TV executives, coaches, owners, and athletes who once had to take second jobs worked together to create the dominating, big-ticket industry of today.

Record details

ISBN: 9781476716954
ISBN: 1476716951
ISBN: 9781476716961
ISBN: 147671696X
Physical Description: 325 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1 Man Who Invented Sports 7 -- 2 Liberation 29 -- 3 Superstars 55 -- 4 Pilic Affair 83 -- 5 Farmer Named Catfish 111 -- 6 Academy World 143 -- 7 Streak: Edwin Moses and the Birth of the Olympic Empire 173 -- 8 Quarterback Club 205 -- 9 Joy of Shooting and the Nike-ization of Sports 233 -- 10 There They Go Again 257.