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Effect of Professional Sports Teams on Social Capital Formation: Comparison Between Football and Baseball in Japan

In: The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim

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  • Eiji Yamamura

    (Seinan Gakuin University)

Abstract

The Japanese Professional Football League (JPFL) was established in 1993 in an attempt to enhance social interaction within teams’ home cities through football. In contrast, the Japan Professional Baseball League (JPBL) was created prior to World War II and has been supported mainly by corporate sponsorship. Using individual-level data from 1996, this paper contains over 250,000 observations to investigate how the JPFL enhanced social capital formation in comparison with the JPBL. A bivariate probit estimation showed that in those areas in which a JPFL team home city was located, people were more likely to play football with their neighbors. In contrast, the presence of a JPBL team did not lead people to play baseball with their neighbors.

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  • Eiji Yamamura, 2015. "Effect of Professional Sports Teams on Social Capital Formation: Comparison Between Football and Baseball in Japan," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Young Hoon Lee & Rodney Fort (ed.), The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim, edition 127, pages 355-367, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-3-319-10037-1_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_19
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    Cited by:

    1. Shang-Chun Ma & Kyriaki Kaplanidou, 2021. "Social Capital and Running: A Network Social Capital Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-14, November.

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