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  • EDITION:
    2nd Edition
  • ISBN:
    0803260164
  • ISBN-13:
    9780803260160
  • PUB. DATE:
    April 2008
  • PUBLISHER:
    University of Nebraska Press

Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit / Edition 2 by Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan

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Field of Schemes; How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profitby Anonymous

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Very detailed and interesting. A thorough argument to stop stadium subsidies. This book was recently distributed to most every politician having a part in the decision making on a new Fenway Park. Apparently they didn't read it since they voted in favor. Read this book now!!

Loved it!by Anonymous

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DeMause is an outstanding writer, and this book does a great job of exposing the world of 'public-funded' stadiums.

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Field of Schemes

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  • Pub. Date: April 2008
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sales Rank: 388,092

Synopsis

Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers, forced to pay both higher taxes and higher ticket prices for seats that, thanks to the layers of luxury seating that typify new stadiums, usually offer a worse view of the action.

 

The stories in Field of Schemes, from Baltimore to Cleveland and Minneapolis to Seattle and dozens of places in between, tell of the sports-team owners who use their money and their political muscle to get their way, and of the stories of spirited local groups—like Detroit’s Tiger Stadium Fan Club and Boston’s Save Fenway Park!—that have fought to save the games we love and the public dollars our cities need.

 

This revised and expanded edition features the first comprehensive reporting on the recent stadium battles in Washington DC, New York City, and Boston as well as updates on how cities have fared with the first wave of new stadiums built in recent years.

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"In exposing the template used by greedy owners and corrupt politicians, the authors have provided a great service for concerned public officials and fans who no longer have to sit in silence."

—Christopher Keshock, NINE

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Biography

Neil deMause is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes regularly for the Village Voice, Extra!, and Baseball Prospectus and runs the stadium-watch Web site fieldofschemes.com.

 

Joanna Cagan is a teacher and writer in New York City. She has written for numerous publications, including the Village Voice, the New York Times Magazine, and Interview.