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Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, ‘‘Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?’’

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  • Christopher J. Coyne

    (West Virginia University, chris.coyne@email.wvu.edu)

  • Justin P. Isaacs

    (Hampden-Sydney College, jisaacs@hsc.edu)

  • Jeremy T. Schwartz

    (Hampden-Sydney College, jschwartz@hsc.edu)

Abstract

In this short note, the authors contrast their own recent work on racial integration in Major League Baseball with that of two other groups: Hanssen and Meehan (2009) and Goff, McCormick, and Tollison (2002). While reaching dissimilar conclusions, both groups understate the role of the entrepreneur in the process of integration and rely too heavily on a continuous estimation model for a discrete dependent variable.

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  • Christopher J. Coyne & Justin P. Isaacs & Jeremy T. Schwartz, 2010. "Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, ‘‘Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?’’," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 11(2), pages 227-231, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jospec:v:11:y:2010:i:2:p:227-231
    DOI: 10.1177/1527002509355760
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    1. Brian L. Goff & Robert E. McCormick & Robert D. Tollison, 2002. "Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 92(1), pages 16-26, March.
    2. F. Andrew Hanssen & James W. Meehan Jr, 2009. "Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 10(2), pages 141-154, April.
    3. Andrew Hanssen, 1998. "The Cost of Discrimination: A Study of Major League Baseball," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(3), pages 603-627, January.
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