Baseball Could Weather Recession

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Baseball Could Weather Recession
Published 1/28/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Baseball Could Weather Recession Adds Maury Brown of the Business of Sports and The Biz of Baseball: A recession will most likely slow growth for baseball, but at this point with a number of teams adding new stadiums and the aforementioned MLB Channel coming online in ‘09, the odds seem long at this point for a downturn for MLB’s revenues. Lastly, MLB has at least one serious trump card, should they be faced with numbers that are not to their liking. Placing MLBAM as an IPO would garner a massive cash infusion to MLB. In 2000, MLBAM was said to be worth approximately $2 ...

Roundup - Great Writing Abounds
Published 1/28/2008 by Dave Rouleau at Baseball Digest Daily
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