Home Run or Wild Pitch?: Assessing the Economic Impact of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 307-327

  Baade, Robert A ^a   Matheson, Victor A ^a  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84990365418     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152700250100200401     Document Type: Article

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