![]() We may get lucky and receive a new CBA that keeps these intraowner squabbles out of our lives, but they're not going to go away for some time, if ever. Helyar deftly weaves the financial facts with in-depth and entrancing profiles of many major league owners. Booklist ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR. ![]() The skinny: there are some hard lines drawn within the owners ranks that won't go away even if Gene Upshaw were to throw up his hands tomorrow and take whatever the NFL gave him. Find Lords Of the Realm by Helyar, John at Biblio. Helyar not only covers a lot of ground, but, more important, he places all of the events and people into a coherent context. He makes the process seem far more complex and hence more gloomy than anything we've come up with. Helyar also moonlights for ESPN and offers this concise look into the issues roiling the owners. ![]() (The anecdote about Ted Turner feigning mental illness by barking like a dog and challenging Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a duel at league meetings so he could get suspended and sail in the America's Cup is worth the cover price all by itself.) ![]() Journal writer made a larger name for himself with his bestseller Barbarians at the Gate, and then wrote Lords of the Realm, a long but definitive history of baseball's century long search for labor peace. ![]() John Helyar knows business and he knows sports. ![]()
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