Who Are Baseballs Behind-the-Scenes Agents and Managers?
As Baseball Prepares for the All-Star Game, Focus on the ‘Conduits for Growth’ NEW YORK, July 6, 2006 — Baseball enthusiasts next week will turn their attention to Pittsburgh’s PNC Park for that glorious annual rite of mid-summer, the All-Star Game. Besides the fans in attendance at Pittsburgh’s ballpark, and the millions more watching on television, there’ll be another group of baseball loyalists routing for their favorite players: the agents and managers who guide the careers of baseball’s major leaguers. So who are these behind-the-scenes powerbrokers who help shape the business of modern professional sports? They are part of a fraternity of handlers who shepherd not only professional athletes, but also entertainers, authors and other public figures. And they are a dispersed lot engaged in a decentralized industry, according to business information analysts IBISWorld (http://www.ibisworld.com), which offers among its deep reservoir of industry research a number of comprehensive rep
