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Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Baseball Players' Labor MarketSimon RottenbergSimon Rottenberg Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 64, Number 3Jun., 1956 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/257790 Views: 208Total views on this site Citations: 740Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1956 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Pierluigi Toma, Francesco Campobasso Using data analytics to capture the strategic and financial decision-making of Europe's top football club, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 186 (Jan 2023): 122116.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122116Petr Parshakov, Elena Shakina, Angel Barajas Testing the contestable market theory in eSports, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 35, no.11 (Apr 2021): 122–142.https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.1889389Hirofumi Fukuyama Sports viewing behaviour with loss aversion and competition balance, Applied Economics Letters 29, no.1818 (Jul 2021): 1680–1685.https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1958137Soudeep Deb A goal based index to analyze the competitive balance of a football league, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 0, no.00 (Oct 2022).https://doi.org/10.1515/jqas-2021-0015Anna Bykova, Dennis Coates Professional team sporting success: do economic and personal freedom provide competitive advantages?, Economics of Governance 106 (Oct 2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-022-00280-3Wolfgang Maennig, Steffen Q. 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