Baseball holds a legal exemption from antitrust law that no other American business enjoys. That single exemption distorted labor markets, suppressed wages, enabled tanking, and eroded civic trust — not because baseball owners are uniquely bad people, but because the system's design removed any consequence for failure.

This book proposes a structural fix: reorganizing professional baseball into a five-tier open system of 150 teams, with promotion and relegation determining who rises and who falls. Every team has something real to play for. Every season means something.

It's not a nostalgia book. It's not about salary caps or parity engineering. It argues that competitive balance isn't achieved by restraining the best — it's achieved by forcing everyone else to try.

"Not one to say no to reading a new book, I just finished it. There is a ton of information, with some really compelling reasons to look at the overall structure of professional baseball. He goes into great detail about a promotion/relegation system that makes a lot of sense if you (I mean me) can put down the notion that it’s okay as it is because it’s always been that way.

Maybe it works? Maybe baseball doesn’t have a choice? Tim covers a lot of the FAQs, if you will. Really encourage anyone who takes issue with the way some franchises just don’t spend money to be competitive, to check this one out."

***** Amazon Review