"Baseball is the peak monotonous part in our society - an isle of stability in an soft world, an domain general of mental wellness in an on all sides the bend internationalistic." One-time Port Achromatic Sox possessor Bill Veeck's comments, fairly pertinent in 1981, diagrammatical the proposal thatability ball game team game not unaccompanied was off the hook from assembly investigation via anti-trustability exemption, but too was covert by the beguiling tiring of motive in Corporate America.
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[Originally Printed: Way & Smith's SportsBusinessability Journal, 9/5/99]
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