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The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the lion's share of both fan attention and spending. So interest in second-rate teams and in second-rate leagues rapidly wanes, leaving one dominant league with monopoly power.

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• Prologue: Sports on Trial
• Part 1 The Integrity of Sports
• 1 Misconduct on the Field
• 2 Honoring Civil Rights in Sports
• 3 The Deadliest Sin in Sports
• 4 The Sports War on Drugs
• 5 Athletes as Role Models
• 6 The Moral Ideal for American Sports
• Part 2 Owners Versus Players
• 7 Show Us the Money
• 8 Sports Joins the Union
• 9 Opening the Flood-Gates
• 10 What Antitrust Did for Players
• 11 How to Level the Player Field
• 12 Salary Sharing among Players
• Part 3 Owners Versus Owners--And Fans/B>
• 13 The Brave New World of Franchise Free Agency
• 14 How Far Have We Traveled?
• 15 What the Law Should Do with Raiders
• 16 Stadium Socialism or a Stadium Cap?
• 17 Sports in Intellectual Space
• 18 What Should Leagues Be Like?
• 19 Expand or Break Up the Big Leagues?
• 20 A Better World for Fans
• Epilogue: A Performance--Enhancing Law for Sports
• Acknowledgments
• Index

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Library Journal Review

Weiler (law, Harvard) has produced a book that, while suggesting ways in which the law can work for fans to improve sports, will not be readily appreciated by those who would benefit from his largesse--except perhaps for diehard fans of Pete Rose, whose admittance to the Hall of Fame the author supports vociferously. Instead of batting averages, wins and losses, and amusing anecdotes, what we have here are discussions of salary caps, free agency, players' unions, the relative impact on the game of players' use of recreational vs. performance-enhancing drugs, taxpayer-funded stadiums, and other legal/economic issues. To his credit, Weiler does not stop at cataloging sins--he also offers possible solutions. Still, this is more a legal treatise than a sports book, and it will find its greatest audience in large public libraries and institutions of higher learning.--Jim Burns, Ottumwa P.L., IA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

With Leveling, Weiler (Harvard Law School) adds significantly to the sports law literature. In Legal Bases (CH, Oct'98), Roger Abrams covers complementary ground but in labor-management relations in baseball only--and he sticks to traditional topics and standard analyses. Weiler covers many more aspects of all professional team sports leagues in detail; he also touches on individual sports and college athletics, and he is not afraid to offer well-reasoned but controversial opinions along the way, especially in three concluding chapters and the epilogue. He groups coverage into three broad areas: integrity in sports (including civil rights, drug use, gambling, and athletes as role models); labor-management issues (antitrust laws, unions, salary and payroll caps, rookie draft systems, and competitive balance); and owners versus other owners, fans, government officials, and taxpayers. Weiler's knowledge of and interest in the law and sports are strong, but he delves too heavily into the economics of sports in the second and third sections, contributing as an intelligent, well-informed layman rather than a professional economist. Researchers will lament the lack of references, figures, tables, and data to substantiate claims and prescriptions. Nevertheless, this is a volume not to be missed by sports fans, legal scholars, social scientists, and public policy officials. All readership levels. ; University of Chicago