Voting Behavior, Discrimination and the National Baseball Hall of Fame

David Findlay () and Clifford E Reid

Economic Inquiry, 1997, vol. 35, issue 3, 562-78

Abstract: The authors investigate whether black, Latin, and white major league baseball players receive the same consideration by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in voting for membership into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The first stage of James Heckman's (1979) two-step procedure indicates that the probability a black player will ever receive at least one vote is significantly lower than that for his white counterpart. The second stage suggests that race or ethnicity sometimes matter in determining the number of votes a candidate receives for Hall of Fame membership. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1997
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