Customer-based discrimination against major league baseball players: Additional evidence from All-star ballots

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1061-1077

  Depken II, Craig A ^a   Ford, Jon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer preference; Fan voting; Sports economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750883895     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.057     Document Type: Article

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