Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Publication Title

Business History Review

Volume

69

First Page

530

Last Page

566

Disciplines

History

Abstract

By any measure, major-league baseball in North America surely qualifies as big business. The national pastime is a vital component of today's urban political economy, and baseball teams resemble other high-prestige businesses in that cities must compete for the privilege of hosting them - whatever their true worth. A study analyzes the transfer of the Milwaukee Braves baseball franchise to Atlanta in 1965 as the outcome of "competitive boosterism" or the active participation of local elites in luring trade, industry, and investment from other cities for the purpose of economic development.

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Copyright © 1995 Cambridge University Press. The full article appears in Business History Review. DOI: 10.2307/3117144.

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