Stadium games : fifty years of big league greed and bush league boondoggles /
In Stadium Games, veteran Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Jay Weiner analyzes Minnesota's fifty-year history with pro sports and the issues contributing to the bid for a new stadium for the Minnesota Twins, along the way providing a big-picture evaluation of national sports economics.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
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Table of Contents:
- If you build it : Minnesota's quest to become major league
- Something to cheer for : the Met welcomes the Vikings and the Twins
- Where the sun don't shine : Calvin and Max move under the teflon sky
- I'm only human : understanding Carl Pohlad
- Off target : Norm's stars go South along with Harv and Marv's fortunes
- I gotta get me one of these : Carl's edifice complex
- Falling in love with the deal : the governor's men go to bat for Carl
- Spilling the beans : the Twins' crime of omission
- It sure looked like a loan : Carl's "contribution" hits the fan
- Holding up the Indians : Arne plays the race card
- Leaving it to Beaver : the special session fake out
- "Baseball lives if you push green" : the public calls Carl's bluff
- Resuscitating the deal : Norm and Sharon wrestle for riverfront baseball
- Building a public trust : striking a fair deal with pro sports.
