FIELD OF SCHEMES

ABOUT THE LATEST
STADIUM SCAMS

WHERE SPORTS SWINDLES
ARE UNDERWAY

DUMBEST REASONS TO
BUILD A NEW STADIUM

AUTHORS JOANNA CAGAN
AND NEIL DEMAUSE

ABOUT SPORTS AND
CORPORATE WELFARE

Links

Updated July 2002

Also by and about the Field of Schemes authors

• Other articles by Neil deMause
• Neil's zine, HERE: The Stories Behind Where You Are (including an article about ballpark battles in Brooklyn)

Other stadium articles and links

• Doug Pappas' MLB Labor and Contraction Commentary
• Sports economist Rodney Fort's sports business reference pages
• Washington University in St. Louis conference, "Economics of Baseball," May 29, 2001
• ESPN.com special report, Fenway: Classic or Clunker? Plus: a RealAudio chat with authors Tom Farrey and Darren Rovell
• Stadia Mania - 1998 ESPN.com special report on stadium and arena issues
Baseball team revenues and profits for 1999 from Forbes magazine
• "Stadium Finance in Philadelphia" - Philadelphia City Controller's report on stadium financing
• "Double Play" - New York City Independent Budget Office report on the economic impact of building new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees
• Ballparks.com - information about sports stadiums and arenas, past, present, and future

Activist groups

• Save Fenway Park - a community group dedicated to preserving America's oldest and most historic ballpark
• Coalition Against Public Funding for Stadiums, St. Louis
• Friends of Tiger Stadium
• Progressive Minnesota - organization opposed to publicly funded baseball stadium in St. Paul, Minnesota
• GAGME (Grassroots Against Government-Mandated Entertainment) anti-stadium subsidy site, including history of the stadium battle in Minnesota, and reports from other cities

• Oakland A's Fan Coalition - fan group dedicated to finding new local ownership for the A's franchise
• Committee to Stop the Giveaway - San Francisco citizen group opposing stadium taxes

Older stadium stuff

• SportsJones article by Neil deMause on sidewalk vendors and the fate of Fenway Park (5/21/99).
• Article in the Philadelphia City Pages about Field of Schemes, and plans for a new Phillies stadium.
• A review of Field of Schemes from the Progress Report -- "If you care about anything, you must read this book!"
• The Rise and Fall of an Edifice Complex - A look at how the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has led the charge for a new Twins ballpark
• The Team That Mistook Its Stadium For A Hat - John Pastier deconstructs Safeco Field for the Seattle Weekly (plus sidebar on ballpark economics)
• Are New Stadiums Worth The Cost? - article by Roger Noll and Andrew Zimbalist, authors of Sports, Jobs, and Taxes
• The Christian Science Monitor (6/17/98) reports on stadium battles in Denver and elsewhere
• Patriot Games - New Haven Advocate special report on Connecticut's proposed stadium for the New England Patriots

Newspaper/radio coverage of stadium battles

• Boston Globe coverage of plans for a replacement for Fenway Park
• Denver Post
• Greensboro News & Record
• Hartford Courant coverage of the Patriots stadium proposal
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Miller Park (Brewers) and Lambeau Field (Packers)
• Minnesota Public Radio coverage of the Twins and Vikings stadium controversies
• New York Times - Yankee and Shea Stadium coverage (from 1998)
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Cardinals stadium saga
• San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner - "The 49ers Stadium Saga"

Articles on corporate welfare

• Ralph Nader's testimony before Congress on corporate welfare
• Time magazine special report on corporate welfare
• A good overview of corporate welfare in Seattle, from the Washington Free Press
• A great article on the history of why corporations are legally people
• The history of french fry subsidies, courtesy of Common Cause

Other corporate welfare resources

• Good Jobs First and Good Jobs New York, two excellent sources of information on corporate subsidies and campaigns to stop them
• Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman's Corporate Predators site
• Corporate Welfare Information Center - links to resources on corporate welfare
• The Economic War Among the States - articles and links from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Corporate welfare links from the Banneker Center for Economic Justice
• Corporate Watch - "committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of these transnational giants"
• The National Budget Simulation (see especially the chart of the current federal budget)