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Lords of the realm john helyar6/25/2023 ![]() It's also not a romantic homage to the heroes of the game. Lords of the Realm is not a sobersided look at the problems of high salaries and free agency. John Helyar, reporter for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the number one bestseller Barbarians at the Gate, says in Lords of the Realm, "Before it was a business, it was a game." But as Helyar discovered, and as he shows in his extraordinary new book, baseball has also been a business for a long, long time. Those prophetic words were uttered by none other than the great Ty Cobb - in 1925. Nor by Bowie Kuhn or Calvin Griffith in the 1970s or Walter O'Malley in the 1960s. ![]() ![]() Nor was it said by Marge Schott in the 1980s. ![]() "The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money that's in it - not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it." That quote does not come from Fay Vincent or Bud Selig in the 1990s. ![]()
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