Fieldofschemes.com is the companion website to Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit, by Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause. Since 1998, we have been casting a critical eye on the roughly $2 billion a year in public subsidies that go toward building new pro sports facilities.
About the book authors
Neil deMause (de-MOSS) is a native New Yorker who is currently an op-ed columnist for Metro New York and a regular contributor to the Village Voice, Baseball Prospectus, and other publications. He went to his first baseball game at the age of four, though it wasn't until age five that he learned to write "BB" for a walk instead of "W" on his scorecard. He maintains his own website at demause.net.
A long-suffering Cleveland sports fan, Joanna Cagan (KAY-gun) has umpired little-league baseball, been denied access to the Syracuse lockerroom for postgame interviews, and judged a pageant for male cover models. After witnessing one too many sports swindles, Joanna Cagan is now recuperating as a teacher in New York City.
