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This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is a concern that has uniquely shaped professional baseball leagues in North America.  It is this particular component in how professional baseball leagues are organized that suggests building a proximity-based approach to studying the economics of minor league baseball.  This book opens up new ways to study minor league baseball, specifically, and sports leagues more generally.  So even as advanced technology has eliminated some of the need for fans to be in close proximity to the teams they love to follow, there is still a need to understand more completely how proximity matters can impact the way professional baseball leagues are structured and how that structure can ultimately impact the quality of the games that entertain sports fans everywhere.  This book will be of interest to both sports economists and practitioners.

Economics/Management Science. --- Economics/Management Science, general. --- Development Economics. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics. --- Economic policy. --- Economie politique --- Politique économique --- Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States. --- Minor league baseball -- United States. --- Baseball --- Minor league baseball --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Economic Theory --- Recreation & Sports --- Economic aspects --- Minor leagues (Baseball) --- Minors (Baseball) --- Development economics. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic development --- Major League Baseball (Organization) --- MLB (Major League Baseball) --- Béisbol de Grandes Ligas (Organization) --- Мейджър Лийг Бейзбол (Organization) --- Meĭdzhŭr Liĭg Beĭzbol (Organization) --- Grandes Ligas de Béisbol (Organization) --- Grandaj Ligoj de Basbalo (Organization) --- Beisbol Liga Handiak (Organization) --- Beisbol Liga Nagusiak (Organization) --- Ligue majeure de baseball (Organization) --- מייג'ור ליג בייסבול (Organization) --- Meyg'or Lig Beysbol (Organization) --- Augstākā beisbola līga (Organization) --- メジャーリーグベースボール (Organization) --- Mejā Rīgu Bēsubōru (Organization) --- Mejārīgubēsubōru (Organization) --- Главная лига бейсбола (Organization) --- Glavnai︠a︡ liga beĭsbola (Organization) --- МЛБ --- Главна лига бејзбола (Organization) --- Glavna liga bejzbola (Organization) --- Головна бейсбольна ліга (Organization) --- Holovna beĭsbolʹna liha (Organization) --- ГБЛ --- HBL (Holovna beĭsbolʹna liha) --- 美國職業棒球大聯盟 (Organization) --- Meiguo zhi ye bang qiu da lian meng (Organization) --- American League of Professional Baseball Clubs --- National League of Professional Baseball Clubs