This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional … baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand …. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is …

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Baseball …'s Interminable Wars -- 2. The Rise of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- 3. Baseball's Longstanding Gambling Problem -- 4. The … Paid but Exploited Players -- 12. Hang On, the Minor Leagues' Bumpy Ride -- 13. Baseball and Ethnic Diversity -- 14 …