Surdam, David G. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 6 (2005) 1, pp. 61-77
Minor league baseball flourished in the aftermath of World War II. However, a new technology, television, threatened to … broadcast major league games across America. The minor leagues contracted by over a third between 1949 and 1953. Was television … the culprit as baseball historians suggest? The diffusion of television does not perfectly match the contraction of the …