Books of The Times; The National Pastime as Big Business - The New York Art of Our National Pastime: A Collection of Baseball Art and Sculpture... Baseball And Billions: A Probing Look Inside The Big Business Of Our Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College, where he has been in the Economics Department since 1974. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 and 1974 respectively