The Money Pitch: Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration

by Roger Abrams

Why are baseball players paid so much money? Written by a legal scholar and salary arbitrator, this book explains how a few thousand young men obtain their extraordinary riches. It juggles personal experience with business economics, game theory and baseball history.

Genres: Business, Sports

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[mila ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really enjoyable read. Abrams takes what is, in my opinion, the perfect approach to the subject: he isn't writing a "baseball for dummies" and he's not writing an overly-complicated step-by-step manual either, he explains well without patronising and does a great job at it.

I do personally wish that his own team biases were a little less apparent, though; he states from the outset that he's a Yankees fan, but anyone could have guessed that with the amount of Yankees organisation details, references, and examples used throughout the book. I'm also biased, as a Red Sox fan myself, but it would have been interesting to see a wider variety of examples and references used to illustrate his points.

[Noel · Rating 1 out of 5]

read it for a paper I was writing on salary arbitration. terribly boring book, and although written in 2000, feels outdated

[Jiwon Choi]

Worst book in my life