The Spread of Integration in Major League Baseball

被引:2
作者
Holmes, Paul M. [1 ]
Kane, Robert F. [2 ]
机构
[1] Ashland Univ, Econ & Finance, Ashland, OH USA
[2] Int Univ Japan Minamiuonuma, Minamiuonuma, Niigata, Japan
关键词
MLB; discrimination; integration; competitive rivalry;
D O I
10.1177/15270025221120588
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
After the initial integration of Major League Baseball (MLB), teams introduced black players at different rates. We examine whether, and to what extent, team performance affected the rate of spread of integration. Our theoretical model predicts that teams of moderate talent will integrate fastest. We confirm this prediction using data from the first twenty years of MLB integration. However we show that relatively little of the spread of integration can be explained by differences in talent/performance, suggesting that competitive rivalry (as we measure it) was not the primary driver of the pace of integration in MLB.
引用
收藏
页码:271 / 284
页数:14
相关论文
共 13 条
[1]  
Becker G., 1957, EC DISCRIMINATION EC
[2]   Put me in, Coach, I'm ready to play [J].
Coyne, Christopher ;
Isaacs, Justin ;
Schwartz, Jeremy ;
Carilli, Anthony .
REVIEW OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS, 2007, 20 (04) :237-246
[3]   Entrepreneurship and the taste for discrimination [J].
Coyne, Christopher J. ;
Isaacs, Justin P. ;
Schwartz, Jeremy T. .
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS, 2010, 20 (04) :609-627
[4]   Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, "Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?" [J].
Coyne, Christopher J. ;
Isaacs, Justin P. ;
Schwartz, Jeremy T. .
JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS, 2010, 11 (02) :227-231
[5]  
Diamond N., 2013, Between skins: The body in psychoanalysis--contemporary developments
[6]   Racial integration as an innovation: Empirical evidence from sports leagues [J].
Goff, BL ;
McCormick, RE ;
Tollison, RD .
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2002, 92 (01) :16-26
[7]   Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment [J].
Goff, Brian L. ;
Tollison, Robert D. .
JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS, 2010, 11 (02) :236-238
[8]   INVESTIGATING CAUSAL RELATIONS BY ECONOMETRIC MODELS AND CROSS-SPECTRAL METHODS [J].
GRANGER, CWJ .
ECONOMETRICA, 1969, 37 (03) :424-438
[9]   The cost of discrimination: A study of major league baseball [J].
Hanssen, A .
SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 1998, 64 (03) :603-627
[10]   Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, "Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?" Response [J].
Hanssen, F. Andrew ;
Meehan, James W., Jr. .
JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS, 2010, 11 (02) :232-235