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Simon Rottenberg and Baseball, Then and Now: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective

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Allen R. Sanderson () (Department of Economics, University of Chicago)
John J. Siegfried () (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University and AEA)

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Fifty years ago the JPE published Simon Rottenberg's "The Baseball Players' Labor Market", the first professional journal article in sports economics. In this retrospective we review some of his insights and analyses with regard to competitive balance, constraints on payroll and freedoms to contract, revenue sharing, territorial rights and the supply of talent. We also note subsequent industry developments Rottenberg could not have anticipated, and identify where he was ahead of his time.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University in its series Working Papers with number 0606.

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Keywords: Rottenberg; baseball; invariance theorem; Coase theorem; reserve clause;

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  1. Yvan J. Kelly, 2008. "Cost Reduction, Competitive Balance, and the Scheduling of Back-to-Back Games in the NBA," Working Papers 0810, International Association of Sports Economists. [Downloadable!]
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