We address potential racial bias by Major League Baseball umpires with respect to ball–strike calls. We offer a …

The authors use data that are collected from the 2007 season to study attendance at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB …) games. Like Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, Japanese teams set price in the inelastic portion of the demand curve, but …

Previous research neglects to consider additional sources of moral hazard in baseball beyond the designated hitter (DH …

sportsbooks, bettors are shown to substitute out of baseball betting into football betting when the season starts. The authors …

dispersion that is “efficient†from wage dispersion around predicted wages. In baseball, it appears that the reason for …

and after free agency. Previous attempts to test the theory's applicability to major league baseball were either …

The effect of minority status on managerial survival in Major League Baseball is analyzed using survival time analysis …

Past studies estimating the marginal revenue products of baseball players have assumed individual players' hitting … performances to be independent of teammate spillovers. However, the baseball community's widely held belief in â … externalities in baseball. Using play-by-play data the authors find evidence contrary to the protection hypothesis—the quality of …

Economists have debated whether and why the designated hitter (DH) rule in North American Major League Baseball led to … an increase in hit batsmen. We use data from Japan's professional baseball leagues to reexamine this question. Our …

This article investigates whether a greater supply of free-agent baseball players at a particular position has any …