Answers Graded A+ 2026.
Sports Business Journal Sport Industry Estimate: - Answer $250 billion in US
Plunkett Research estimated the total value of the U.S. sport industry : - Answer $519.9 billion
Plunkett Research estimated global sport industry to be: - Answer $1.3 trillion
Reasons for increased sport popularity: - Answer -economic
-societal: change in papu;ation, title IX, GI bill
-technological
Retractable roofs add: - Answer 200 million dollars in cost
-require 1 millon in maintenance a year
Temporary era: - Answer stage 1-4
-pre 1903
Jewel Box era - Answer 1903-1952
-stage 5 and 6
Cookie cutter era - Answer 1953-1991
-stage 7
Present permanent era: - Answer 1992-present
-stage 8
water mark stadium for JEWEL BOX ERA: - Answer harvard stadium 1903
water mark stadium for stage 8 - Answer - Oriole Park Camden Yards
water mark stadium for COOKIE CUTTER ERA: - Answer milwaukie county stadium
Stage 1: - Answer temporary
, -no standardization of rules
- cannot distinguish participants from spectators--> no territory outlined
Stage 2: - Answer temporary
-standardiaztion of rules
-territory
-spectators but no stands
-industrialization
-NY and Mass versions of baseball
-harvard football
Stage 2: water mark facility: - Answer elysian fields
NY version: - Answer -added foul lines
-diamond shape
national league used this version of baseball
Stage 3: - Answer temporary
-first enclosure**
-small and simple
-made of wood
-bleacher and grandstand seating
First enclosed facility: - Answer -union grounds in brooklyn
Stage 3 water mark facility: - Answer union grounds
Stage 4: - Answer temporary and semi permanent
-elaborate wood structures
-pay to watch
-technology
-small business owned
Stage 5: - Answer jewel box
-single purpose permanent