Major league baseball and American cities: A strategy for playing the stadium game

Policy Studies Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-64

  Sullivan, Neil J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0001907608     PISSN: 02784416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1998.tb00753.x     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. see for example, Baim, Dean V. The Spoils Stadium As A Municipal Investment, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Baade, Robert A., "Is There An Economic Rationale for Subsidizing Sports Stadiums?", Chicago: Heartland Institute, 1987. Baade, Robert A. and Dye, Richard F., "Sports Stadiums and Area Development: A Critical Review, " Economic Development Quarterly, no. 2 (August 1988)
2. see for example, Baim, Dean V. The Spoils Stadium As A Municipal Investment, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Baade, Robert A., "Is There An Economic Rationale for Subsidizing Sports Stadiums?", Chicago: Heartland Institute, 1987. Baade, Robert A. and Dye, Richard F., "Sports Stadiums and Area Development: A Critical Review, " Economic Development Quarterly, no. 2 (August 1988)
3. see for example, Baim, Dean V. The Spoils Stadium As A Municipal Investment, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Baade, Robert A., "Is There An Economic Rationale for Subsidizing Sports Stadiums?", Chicago: Heartland Institute, 1987. Baade, Robert A. and Dye, Richard F., "Sports Stadiums and Area Development: A Critical Review, " Economic Development Quarterly, no. 2 (August 1988)
4. see Sullivan, Neil J. The Dodgers Move West, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
5. see Euchner, Charles, C. Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight To Keep Them, Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press, 1993; and Whitford, David, Playing Hardball: The High-Stakes Battle for Baseball's New Franchises, New York: Doubleday, 1993.
6. see Euchner, Charles, C. Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight To Keep Them, Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press, 1993; and Whitford, David, Playing Hardball: The High-Stakes Battle for Baseball's New Franchises, New York: Doubleday, 1993.
7. see Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, et al., 259 U.S. 200, 1922.
8. In 1997, thirty teams will play in the American and National leagues with two more franchises joining in 1998.
9. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975), pp. 15-16.
10. Fenway Park in Boston, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Tiger Stadium in Detroit date to the World War I era, and Busch Stadium in St. Louis was publicly financed, but later purchased by the Cardinals.
11. Savas, E.S. Privatization: The Key to Better Government, (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House, 1987) p. 222.