Don't Be Afraid to Win
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Don't Be Afraid to Win

How Free Agency Changed the Business of Pro Sports

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eBook - ePub

Don't Be Afraid to Win

How Free Agency Changed the Business of Pro Sports

About this book

Professional sports were not always the way they are today. Don't Be Afraid to Win tells the story of how the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League evolved from teams and leagues that were relatively small businesses into multibillion-dollar industries. The book recounts the critical role the professional athletes played in this evolution and a lawyer who was intimately involved from the beginning and who spent a lifetime interacting with star athletes as well as team owners and league management in all the major leagues. Labeled by The New York Times as "instrumental in helping change the face of major professional sports, " attorney Jim Quinn has influenced modern sports business for decades. Beginning back in the 1970's with the landmark Oscar Robertson basketball free agency case, Quinn battled owners in all four major leagues to make sure the players got their fair share. In the early 1990's, he faced the goliath National Football League and won the right to free agency for players, Quinn has spent a lifetime dealing in the gritty sports business to make fair agreements for players. Quinn shares significant cases and legal proceedings across major American sports and tells stories of the courtroom battles he fought on behalf of players and labor leaders seeking economic justice in their workplace. He sheds light on known and unknown figures who committed to larger causes than themselves and that modern sports owes a debt to the leaders of the past who risked their careers. Through Quinn's lengthy career he has helped to empower athletes to speak and act in the best interest of the sports community and overcome some of the toxic figures who sought to drag down league success for their own ego and greed. In Don't Be Afraid to Win, Quinn provides a unique point of view of someone who was personally involved in making changes happen in the business. His is a masterful examination of how sports has grown dramatically over the decades, how it benefited from the rise of sports unions and free agency, and how there is still fairness to be gained across the leagues.

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Information

Publisher
Diversion Publishing
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781635766851
Edition
0
Subtopic
Media & Entertainment Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Michele Roberts, Executive Director, National Basketball Players Association
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1. The 21-Minute Strike
  8. Chapter 2. The Agent from Hell
  9. Chapter 3. TV Changes Everything
  10. Chapter 4. “The Big O” Sues the NBA
  11. Chapter 5. The Free Agency Wars Continue
  12. Chapter 6. NBA and the “Phony Peace”
  13. Chapter 7. Soccer—the Sport of the ’80s
  14. Chapter 8. Cable TV: Baseball’s “Pot of Gold”
  15. Chapter 9. The Salary Cap Is Born
  16. Chapter 10. Trump’s “Three-Dollar” League
  17. Chapter 11. Let’s Blow Up the Union
  18. Chapter 12. Larry Died
  19. Chapter 13. “We Can Always Get More Cattle”
  20. Chapter 14. “God Almighty Free at Last”
  21. Chapter 15. The Sword of Damocles
  22. Chapter 16. Hockey Fights—from Slapshots to Slapstick
  23. Chapter 17. A Union in Turmoil
  24. Chapter 18. “Litigator to the Rescue”
  25. Chapter 19. Death and Treachery
  26. Chapter 20. The Brady Bunch
  27. Chapter 21. Into the Breach Once Again
  28. Chapter 22. The “Lockout King” Redux
  29. Chapter 23. From the Depths to the Heights
  30. Epilogue
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Notes
  33. Gallery