Section I: Introduction Accordin...

Section I: Introduction

According to Rodney Fort and James Quirk, "Sports leagues are in the business of selling competition upon the playing field." (Fort and Quirk, 1995 p 1265) It is, therefore, not surprising that competitive balance is important in keeping fan interest. still as Andrew Zimbalist notes, "There has always been a certain number of degree of competitive imbalance in baseball.... Viewed as a business, baseball or any other sport would rather have teams from bigger cities win more many times than teams from smaller cities." (Zimbalist, 2000 p 55)

In 1970 snappish Flood sued Major League Baseball (MLB) to become a unrestrained ...