NATIONAL LEAGUE

Frank P. Jozsa

Chapter 2 in Sports Nation:Contemporary American Professional Organizations, 2017, pp 35-67 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: After rumors that some teams were illegally paying their players, the amateur National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) established a professional category in 1869. Two years later, several clubs separated themselves from the NABBP and found the wild and woolly National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), or simply National Association (NA)…

Keywords: Professional Sports Leagues; Professional Sports Teams; Sports Business; Sports Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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