cutchemist42
05-03-2007, 04:37 PM
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1079&Itemid=41
So Bizofbaseball.com did a big economic roundtable talk about baseball's current state and a few interesting things are there if your interested in reading. Here's a quote I found interesting though.
Noll: Baseball has not yet found an effective way to exploit business opportunities internationally. The same can be said of other American pro sports, but baseball probably has the largest unrealized potential for international play. In the immediate future, the greatest opportunity is for a genuine baseball World Cup among national teams, featuring mainly players from Major League Baseball. But in a decade or so, rising incomes in Latin America and Asia could make “major leagues” (with some teams equivalent in quality to MLB) feasible there, in which case an international club championship, like the Champions League in European soccer, also would become attractive. Does MLB have the entrepreneurial capability to take the lead on these issues? Based on its feeble attempt at a baseball world championship in the spring of 2006, baseball seems in danger of missing these opportunities.
I would be interested to know though why he thought the WBC was feeble. It produced a profit and it was only in it's first attempt! I would say the NPB has a few teams at that level, but what other leagues have "major" league potential if any?
So Bizofbaseball.com did a big economic roundtable talk about baseball's current state and a few interesting things are there if your interested in reading. Here's a quote I found interesting though.
Noll: Baseball has not yet found an effective way to exploit business opportunities internationally. The same can be said of other American pro sports, but baseball probably has the largest unrealized potential for international play. In the immediate future, the greatest opportunity is for a genuine baseball World Cup among national teams, featuring mainly players from Major League Baseball. But in a decade or so, rising incomes in Latin America and Asia could make “major leagues” (with some teams equivalent in quality to MLB) feasible there, in which case an international club championship, like the Champions League in European soccer, also would become attractive. Does MLB have the entrepreneurial capability to take the lead on these issues? Based on its feeble attempt at a baseball world championship in the spring of 2006, baseball seems in danger of missing these opportunities.
I would be interested to know though why he thought the WBC was feeble. It produced a profit and it was only in it's first attempt! I would say the NPB has a few teams at that level, but what other leagues have "major" league potential if any?