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Commissioners in Glass Houses...
As Andrew Zimbalist points out in the introduction to "Baseball and Billions", in 1991 baseball attendance had increased by 50% over the totals for 1977, total revenues had almost doubled what they were five years earlier ($718M to 1.4B), and operating profits had gone from in the red to the black (a $221.6M increase). But what did then-commissioner Fay Vincent have to say about the state of baseball:
"Baseball is poised for catastrophe and it might not be far off."
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