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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love Dave Zirin Reprint edition

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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

Dave Zirin

Reprint edition

Funny, engaging, and sharply pointed in his appraisal of the sports complex bankrupting our cities, the celebrated author of A People?s History of Sports in the United States returns with a hard-hitting indictment of big business and the corrupt practices that are ruining the sports we love.

When attending a baseball game becomes a luxury reserved for the wealthy few and cities build multi-million dollar stadiums while letting their bridges crumble, the price of sports in this country demands reassessment. Bad Sports cuts through the hype and bombast to give us a portrait of sports ownership as irresponsible as the financial shenanigans that drove the nation to the edge of economic ruin. From the outrageous use of public funds for stadium construction to the use of these spaces for religious and political platforms, Dave Zirin raises vital questions about misplaced priorities and moral abdications among the politicians we elect and the owners of the teams we root for.

Speaking out in clear and passionate terms for the rights of any taxpayer and sports fan, Zirin returns America?s favorite pastimes back to where they belong?in the open and for the people.

240 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	March 6, 2012
ISBN13	9781595587824
Publishers	The New Press
Pages	240
Dimensions	140 × 210 × 205 mm · 272 g
Language	English