Books of Professional sports

  • The Ultimate Fan's Guide to: Pro Sports Travel
    By AAA Publishing

    A guide to major league sports facilities in cities throughout the United States offers ticket and transportation tips for stadiums and arenas hosting baseball, football, basketball, and hockey teams.

  • The Business of Sports: Text and Cases on Strategy and Management
    By George Foster, Bill Walsh, Stephen A. Greyser

    Get the business casebook that scores on all levels! THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS: CASES AND TEXT ON STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT shows you how off-the-field business interests change the dynamics of play.

  • Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America
    By Eric M. Leifer

    In NFL football, for example, fans account for nearly all of the persisting inequality in team performance. The possibility of sustaining inequality among equals emerges from the cross-pressures that fans and leagues place on competition.

  • Plunkett's Sports Industry Almanac 2009
    By Jack W. Plunkett

    ASTON VILLA FOOTBALL CLUB Industry Group Code: 711211D Ranks within this company's industry group: Sales: 8 Profits: 9 Y ATHLETES FIRST SPORTS MANAGEMENT Industry Group Code: 711410 Ranks within. www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk Sports: ...

  • The Business of Sports: Perspectives on the Sports Industry
    By Brad R. Humphreys, Dennis R. Howard

    From the financing of mega-stadiums to player strikes to the sponsorship of events by alcohol and tobacco companies, this set covers the spectrum of topics and issues relating to the management and promotion of organized sports--one of the ...

  • Sports Economics After Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg
    By Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne

    UTQI is a highly statistically significant determinant of sporting performance with better goodness of fit than the alternative APC specification although still subject to significant residual heteroscedasticity .

  • Money in Sports
    By Nick Hunter

    Discusses the history of money in sports, how professional athletes have come to earn sizeable salaries, and the role of advertising.

  • Money in Sport
    By Nick Hunter

    Have there always been professional athletes who earn huge salaries? What is the role of advertising in sport? Exciting and varied case studies are used throughout this book to illustrate issues and concepts.

  • Sports Economics
    By David Berri

    This shift away from traditional theory is reflected in this modern text as it uses sports statistics and real-world narratives to walk students through how conclusions are reached in recent research.

  • Stumbling on Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports
    By David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt

    Every general manager needs to buy this book to save his owner money. Every fan needs to buy this book to know when it makes sense to yell at the general manager."--Darren Rovell, CNBC Sports Business Reporter "This is an important book.

  • Knicks Don't Click: Isiah Thomas Illustrates how Money Can't Buy You Love
    By David J. Berri

    This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt.

  • Sponsored Life: The Ultimate Guide to Skateboarding Sponsorship
    By Matt Dawson

    Provides aspiring professional skateboarders with information and advice on how to find commercial sponsorship and the expectations that companies have of the people they sponsor, with inside details from both companies and athletes.

  • Playing Tennis: From Intermediate to Advanced
    By William Ralston

    A guide for developing players looking to join professional ranks "Playing Tennis" addresses the challenges experienced by developing players who are starting to play advanced competitive tennis and hoping to take their first steps in the ...