Minor League Baseball attracts over 40 million fans a year. One potentially important attendance draw is the ability …€™s attendance. Their results suggest that only those prospects ranked in the top 5 and at the highest level (AAA) have an impact on … their team’s attendance and their impact on attendance is small. …

Although conventional wisdom holds that alcohol availability increases baseball attendance, little evidence exists on … the complementarity between attendance and alcohol availability. To address this gap in the literature, we examine the … effect of Rome, Georgia’s November 2004 legalization of Sunday alcohol sales on a minor league baseball team’s attendance …