Not At Any Price: Integrity in Professional Sports

Drugs in professional sports. Todays news? Not to the authors who take you behind the scenes into the backrooms the board rooms and the high perches of politics where the quest for a states profit often outweighs giving the public a fair return for their loyalty and support. This is not your average sports story. It delves into the experiences of two people who defied fierce opposition and personal threat to do the right thing in the management of Thoroughbred Racing and Professional Hockey and in the evaluating and negotiating of Pro Baseball and Football teams. We are not born with integrity. It is the product of our pasts how we meet lifes challenges and in our case the deep faith which gave us the courage to confront our enemies and realize our goals. Biographical in form you will relive the authors early years and travel the diverse paths their lives took. You may often ponder how this successful partnership evolved Man/Woman. Catholic/Jew. Poor Boy/Rich Girl. New England Newspaper columnist/ New York entertainment writer. Running sports facilities hosting thousands of patrons daily at an arena stadium or paying field was a unique challenge. Vin Bartimo had the prime responsibility for the action Roz Muller was the champion of the fans. Together they made winners of losing entities shared their largesse with the communities in which they operated and gave the public what they wanted and deserved.