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...avoid robberies in which thugs stop a car at a light and demand money at gunpoint or force occupants to an ATM. The crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew of other security accessories. Since 1996 the firm's Brazilian revenues have surged more than sevenfold...
Another chapter gives a refreshing insight into Roy Eisenhardt, the progressive president of the Oakland A's--one of the few baseball executives who cares more about their players and the state of the game than about making money from it. Angell shows that Eisenhardt considers baseball not as merely another tidy, profitable investment, but rather as an activity that can bring joy to thousands and provide a badly needed diversion from our daily lives...
...mental tunings cannot be made in all the haggling and tumult of a strike. Across the country, fans and reporters, radio and TV stations, have collaborated on a variety of athletic methadones meant to get them through the crisis. One afternoon last week, Oakland A's President Roy Eisenhardt sat at home watching a video tape of a game played last August between the A's and the Baltimore Orioles. The tape helped Eisenhardt keep his mind off the $250,000 that his club lost during the first weekend of the strike...
When the elder Haas retires from Levi Strauss next year to indulge his passion for fly-fishing on Oregon streams, Eisenhardt, a Berkeley law professor before he became the team's president, will continue to reflect the family philosophy. Says he: "You wouldn't go into this as a business investment. You do it because you can get a lot of satisfaction out of it." His relationship with Martin is refreshingly tension-free, at least so far. Says Eisenhardt: "Billy is in charge of everything on the field. I'm in charge of everything that...
...Eisenhardt and the younger Haas, a former Levi Strauss Foundation officer who is the A's executive vice president, plan to install baseball's first computerized ticket-selling operation, with satellite terminals in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno and Stockton to cope with the lengthening lines of excited fans. The executives also intend to get athletes involved in community projects, and, as the elder Haas dreams, "win the World Series." October is a long way off, but if the new owners keep their cattle rollin' and their hats on the rack, their phenomenal success with...