Batting last as a home advantage factor in men's NCAA tournament baseball

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 681-686

  Bray, Steven R ^a   Obara, Jeff ^b   Kwan, Matt ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

College baseball; Game location; Home advantage; Rules

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ALBERTA; BASEBALL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRAVEL;

EID: 22644435303     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410400022136     Document Type: Article

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