Research Note: What Takes Them Out to the Ball Game

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 222-233

  Schmidt, Martin B ^a   Berri, David J ^b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attendance; demand; Major League Baseball; structural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385590     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002504271352     Document Type: Article

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