IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/buhirw/v69y1995i04p530-566_06.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the Braves

Author

Listed:
  • Gendzel, Glen

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. This article 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.

Suggested Citation

  • Gendzel, Glen, 1995. "Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the Braves," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(4), pages 530-566, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:69:y:1995:i:04:p:530-566_06
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0007680500061894/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Michael T. Friedman & Daniel S. Mason, 2004. "A Stakeholder approach to Understanding Economic Development Decision Making: Public Subsidies for Professional Sport Facilities," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 18(3), pages 236-254, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:69:y:1995:i:04:p:530-566_06. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/bhr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.