<blockquote>That, of course, would have meant spending money the owners didn't want to spend on the best players, front-office personnel and training facilities. It would also have meant ceding control to professional management in an era when some teams, including the Cubs, were run as hobbies by captains of industry who knew far more about salesmanship than about baseball.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/03/26/a-nice-little-place-on-the-north-side-wrigley-field-at-one-hundred/6843067/">Wrigley at 100: Field of thwarted dreams</a>.
<blockquote>Perhaps Will's own fan loyalty prevented him from delivering the sharply focused but rather too devastating critique this book could and arguably should have been, but we can forgive this. He did it for love.</blockquote>