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by John Nichols
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Big
League, Big Time: The Birth of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Billion-Dollar
Business of Sports, and the Power of the Media in America
by Len Sherman
Book Description On March 31, 1998, more than 48,500 fans cheered
the arrival of Major League Baseball's newest expansion team, the Arizona
Diamondbacks. In the first book ever to chronicle the birth of a major-league
baseball franchise from conception to Opening Day, Big League, Big Time
takes you inside the Diamondbacks dugout -- and their corporate suite --
to examine the billion-dollar business of baseball and its enormous impact
on our culture.
While many prominent people went to bat for baseball in Phoenix, sports
entrepreneur Jerry Colangelo, the Diamondbacks' managing general partner,
swung for the fences and scored a league-envious, $355 million state-of-the-art
baseball facility. Big League, Big Time discloses how Colangelo's
revolutionary vision for the Diamondbacks affected all aspects of the club
-- especially his choice of personnel, from Jay Bell and Andy Benes to
former Yankees manager Buck Showalter, "a young man with old-fashioned
ideas."
But even before they had drafted a player, the Diamondbacks front office
was well aware that marketing "The Show" was the off-the-field game they
couldn't afford to lose. Read the inside story of how they chose the team's
name and colors, successfully maneuvered multimillion-dollar deals with
a host of major sponsors, determinedly wooed the vast Mexican market, attracted
such celebrity coinvestors as Billy Crystal and Lou Gosset, Jr., and became
one of the five highest revenue-producing franchises before a single game
was played.
Complete with player profiles, an exclusive inside-the-war-room took
at the expansion draft, and a dissection of the media's role in the global
growth of the sports industry, Big League, Big Time is a rare glimpse into
the politics, business, and promise of baseball -- a fascinating analysis
of how one city cultivated a very special field of dreams.
(Paperback - March 1999)
The
History of the Arizona Diamondbacks (Baseball (Mankato, Minn.).)
by John Nichols
(Library Binding - August 2002)
Tales
from the Arizona Diamondbacks Dugout
by Bob Page
Book Description: Tales from the Diamondback Dugout is a compilation
of fascinating vignettes that give baseball fans an inside look at the
2001 Arizona Diamondbacks' world championship season as well as many of
the magic moments that preceded it. From the founding of the expansion
franchise to their quick rise to glory, as seen through the eyes of Manager
Bob Brenly, his coaching staff and such D-Backs players as Randy Johnson,
Curt Schilling, Mark Grace, Matt Williams and Luis Gonzalez, readers get
a front-row seat for Arizona's World Series win over the New York Yankees.
Veteran sportscaster Bob Page has covered Major League Baseball for nearly
30 years and takes you behind the scenes for an intimate, informative and
often humorous look at the game's new champions.
Paperback: 181 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.49 x
8.44 x 5.56
Publisher: Sports Publishing, Inc.; (February 13, 2003)
ISBN: 1582616655
Total Diamondbacks 2000 (Total Baseball Companions)
by Gary Gillette (Editor), et al
(Paperback - )
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