Historical perspectives on sports economics : lessons from the field

Contents: Preface -- 1. Understanding economics through the history of sport / John Wilson -- 2. From recreational sports clubs to sports businesses: Bradford and Queen's Park football clubs 1860s-1914 / John Dewhirst and Wray Vamplew -- 3. Home ground advantage: The determinants of sharing versus sole occupied stadium arrangements / Richard Pomfret and John K. Wilson -- 4. Stadium construction and the distribution of winning percentages in the English and Scottish football leagues, 1888-89 to 1938-39 / Lionel Frost, Luc Borrowman, Vinod Mishra and Abdel K. Halabi -- 5. The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of the Olympic Games as an economic driver / Victor Matheson -- 6. The winter sports industry and Winter Olympics in historical perspective: From Grenoble 1968 to Albertville 1992 / Wladimir Andreff -- 7. Incomplete contracting, league governance, and the role of the commissioner in Japanese and North American professional baseball / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix -- 8. Baseball and life expectancy: Evidence from linked historical data / Joseph Price, Sebastian Brown, and Jacob Van Leeuwen -- 9. The height and weight of Canadian major league hockey players, 1909-2010 / J. Andrew Ross, John Cranfield, and Kris Inwood -- 10. Beating the odds: Black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, 1870-1911 / Michael Leeds and Hugh Rockoff -- 11. Betting on sport: History, regulation, measurement / Pierre-Charles Pradier -- 12. Club survival in the English Premier League: What does it take to survive in the top flight? / Jeffrey Chang, Luc Borrowman and Lionel Frost -- 13. Epilogue - Looking forward -- Index.