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Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.

— Andrew Zimbalist Baseball And Billions - Updated edition (1992)

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Between 1903 and 1991 the value of the Yankees appreciated at a compound annual rate of 11.4 percent.

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It is well to recall that in 112 years of major league baseball, there has been only one bankruptcy filing.

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Baseball's popularity and, more so, it's revenues continue to increase.

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The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.

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