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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

2. Politics Takes the Field

verfasst von : James T. Bennett

Erschienen in: They Play, You Pay

Verlag: Springer New York

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Abstract

Although taxpayer-funded ballparks and stadiums are the focus of this analysis, we start with several backstories which illustrate the ways in which government—even the federal government—became involved in sport. After all, hotel taxes to finance football coliseums did not just spring full blown from the brows of greedy owners and their enablers in a hundred local Chambers of Commerce. Government intervention in matters of play grew over time. If the Founding Fathers did not exactly contemplate a role for the federal city in games played with balls and bats, later politicians, whose motivations ran from simple fandom to the cynical pursuit of the pork barrel, entered the field wielding legislation, appropriations, and sometimes threats. And who better to headline our first episode than that apostle of the vigorous outdoor life, President Theodore Roosevelt?

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Vorheriges Kapitel Introduction
Nächstes Kapitel Parks and Stadiums Until 1960
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Metadaten
Titel
Politics Takes the Field
verfasst von
James T. Bennett
Copyright-Jahr
2012
Verlag
Springer New York
Buch
They Play, You Pay

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-3331-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-3332-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3332-3_2