Twenty-Five Years of Stacking Research in Major League Baseball: An Attempt at Explaining This Re-Occurring Phenomenon

Sociological Focus

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 321-331

  Smith, Earl ^a   Leonard, Wilbert M ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84996139775     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.1997.10571083     Document Type: Article

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