Pay Up and Play the Game

Part I. An Overview: 1. Is money the root of all evil? A historical appreciation of commercialisation in sports; 2. Comments on the state of play: economic historians and sports history; Part II. The Development of Professional Gate-Money Sport: 3. Popular recreation before the industrial revolution; 4. Sporting activities and economic change, 1750-1830; 5. The precursors of commercialised sport, 1830-75; 6. The rise of professional gate-money sport, 1875-1914; 7. From sports spectator to sports consumer; Part III. Sport in the Market Place: The Economics of Professional Sport: 8. Profits or premierships?; 9. All for one and one for all; 10. Paying the piper: shareholders and directors; 11. Winning at any cost?; Part IV. Playing for Pay: Professional Sport as an Occupation: 12. The struggle for recognition; 13. Earnings and opportunities; 14. Close of play; 15. Not playing the game: unionism and strikes; 16. Labour aristocrats or wage slaves?; Part V. Unsporting Behaviour: 17. Ungentlemany conduct; 18. The madding crowd; Part VI. A Second Overview: 19. An industrial revolution in sport; Appendices: 1. Shareholders and shareholdings in Scottish and English sport; 2. Regulations defining amateurism and professionalism in British sports.