Overview
- Explores the relationship between minor league baseball and major league baseball using economic analysis
- Analyzes minor league baseball using approachable applied economic research
- Develops policy analysis that is useful for minor league and major league baseball executives as well as academics in sports economics and sport management?
Part of the book series: Sports Economics, Management and Policy (SEMP, volume 7)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is a concern that has uniquely shaped professional baseball leagues in North America. It is this particular component in how professional baseball leagues are organized that suggests building a proximity-based approach to studying the economics of minor league baseball. This book opens up new ways to study minor league baseball, specifically, and sports leagues more generally. So even as advanced technology has eliminated some of the need for fans to be in close proximity to the teams they love to follow, there is still a need to understand more completely how proximity matters can impact the way professional baseball leagues are structured and how that structure can ultimately impact the quality of the games that entertain sports fans everywhere. This book will be of interest to both sports economists and practitioners.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Call Up to the Majors
Book Subtitle: A Proximity-Based Approach to the Economics of Minor League Baseball
Authors: Thomas A. Rhoads
Series Title: Sports Economics, Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8924-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8923-8Published: 28 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5439-1Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8924-5Published: 28 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-298X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-2998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 121
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Economic Policy