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(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/readings/sports.html)

Supporting Sites:

• Public Facilities
• Impact Studies

Internet Sites:

Chapin's (famous) Professional Sports Stadia Page

Sports Economics

Rodney Fort's Website on Sport Economics [Washington State University]

Paul Allen's Football and Stadium Pages

Canadian Sporting Goods Association

• Related Websites

(Seattle) Mariner Economic Analysis By Robert Baade, "nationally known for analyzing stadium proposals" Document Posted on: 3/14/97

The America's Cup: Build-up to the 2003 Defense: Economic Impact Assessment

Syllabi:

Econ 330- Economics of Sports in America [Rodney Fort, Washington State Univ., Fall 2000]

GEOG 4000: SPORT, PLACE AND DEVELOPMENT [Spring, 1998] Instructor: Harrison Campbell (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Newspaper Clippings:

• Sonics Buying the dream: Today's team owners young and impatient Seattle Times, January 14, 2001; By Les Carpenter This is the new face of professional-sports ownership: young, eager and impatient. As athletes become icons, and player salaries soar, so also have the men who buy into the game changed. The days of the family-owned franchise - ... Today's owner is a superfan in his 30s or 40s, dripping with the new wealth and hungry for a piece of the show.

• Baseball notes: Owners meeting accomplishes little on disparity Seattle Times, Friday, December 4, 1998 "... fans in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Oakland might as well say goodbye to dreams of making it to the World Series. ...baseball owners didn't have an answer for the widening disparity between the richest and poorest teams. Commissioner ... Selig would (only)... say a variety of economic issues were discussed. ... but nothing was resolved.... One thing that was not discussed was changing the revenue sharing formula...."

• Stadium measure is passing, Seattle Times, Wednesday, June 18, 1997 by David Schaefer and David Postman Paul Allen's $5 million campaign-spending spree for a new football stadium bought victory in only seven of the state's 39 counties - but they are the right counties. Keeping Seahawks spurred 'yes' votes
  Steve Kelley: Immaculate election for Hawks?
  As stadium vote sways, so does Moon's mood
  Election unlike any other for Seahawk employee
  The real work on the stadium is just beginning for builder
  San Francisco stadium issue passes
  
• Large turnout seen on stadium Seattle Times, Sunday, June 15, 1997 by David Schaefer Although Referendum 48 comes at a time when citizens are more preoccupied with summer vacations than with politics, and it's the only question on Tuesday's ballot,
• Stadium vote has unusual twists by David Schaefer, Seattle Times, Sunday, May 4, 1997.
• Stadiums don't need tax money, author says Seattle Times, Saturday, April 12, 1997 by David Schaefer. "Professional football teams earn enough money from television revenues, ticket sales and concessions to build their own stadium without taxes, says an economist who specializes in the impact of sports on urban areas. Mark Rosentraub, an Indiana University professor and author of a new book on sports economics...."

• Pro Sport's Impact on the Economy is Closer to a Bunt than a Home Run, but There May Be Other Reasons to Keep Teams Swinging at Home [By Tom Griffin, in: UW Alumni Columns, June 1997.]

• S.F. voters said no, so baseball team is building park Seattle Times, March 23, 1997 by Elliott Almond Bay Area residents have rejected ballot measures to fund a new Giants stadium four times since 1984 even though it almost cost them their baseball team... The Giants were sold in 1992 to 24 local investors led by Peter Magowan, who owns a chain of Safeway grocery stores, and Donald Fisher, founder of the Gap clothing boutiques.

• Seattle Times, August 26, 1996, p.A1

• Tickets to cost more; fans likely won't care Seattle Times, Wednesday, March 5, 1997; by David Schaefer

• Seahawks departure would be costly If they leave, local area could lose millions, Seattle Times, Feb. 3, 1996 by Susan Gilmore "If the Seahawks leave Seattle, they will leave a $46 million hole in the local economy. That figure, calculated by local economists Dick Conway and Bill Beyers, is the "new" money generated by the Seahawks last year, money that wouldn't be spent in the state if the football team left town. The $46 million includes television revenue, money the Seahawks make on the road, money from the NFL, and money spent by the visiting teams. In all, the Seahawks contributed $84 million in sales to the economy last year, the study found."

Literature:

A (much!) more complete Literature list is being maintained by Tim Chapin.

Baade, Robert A. and Dye, Richard F. The Impact of Stadiums and Professional Sports on Metropolitan Area Development. Growth and Change, Spring 1990, 21(2), p. 1.

Bale, J., Sports Geography. London: E.F.& N.Spon, 1989.

Carter, Michael, Bringing Home the Cup [Senior Lecturer in Economics University of Canterbury. Note: This article was published in two parts in the Christchurch Press on Wednesday, 13th September 1995 and Thursday 14th September 1995]

Chapin, Timothy 's Stadia Research

Danielson, Michael N., Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis. Princeton University Press. 1997. 397pp. [summary in JEL Dec. 1997, p.2161]

Euchner, Charles C. Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Fort, Rodney and James Quirk. "Cross-Subsidization, Incentives, and Outcomes in Professional Team Sports Leages," Journ. of Econ. Lit 33 (Sept. 1995), 1265-99. [includes discussion of franchise locations].

Helmke, Paul and Mark Rosentraub, "Location Theory, a Growth Coalition, and a Regime in the Development of a Medium-Sized City", Urban Affairs Review. March 1996. ( Newspaper clipping)

Henry, N. and Pinch, S., (2001) (The) Industrial agglomeration (of Motor Sport Valley): A Knowledge, Space, Economy Approach' in Bryson, J., Daniels, P. and Pollard, J. (eds), Knowledge, Space, Economy, Routledge, London, 2000. [Suzzallo/Allen Stacks HF1025 .K567 2000]

Kahn, Lawrence M., The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory", Journ. of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), Summer 2000, pp.75ff.

Madden, John, University of Tasmania Australia, Hobart, Australia, Matthew Crowe, New South Wales Treasury, Sydney, Australia Estimating the economic impact of the Sydney Olympic Games

Quirk, James and Rodney D. Fort. Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Sports. New updated paperback edition, March 1997. [summary in JEL Dec.1997, p.2152]

Rooney, J.F., A Geography of American Sport: From Cabin Creek to Anaheim. Reading, MA. Addison-Wesley, 1974.

Rosentraub, Mark (1997) Major League Losers: The Real Costs of Sports and Who's Paying for It. Basic Books. Rosentraub, M. and S. Nunn (1978). Suburban city investment in professional sports. American Behavioral Scientist January/February: pps. 393-414.

Rosentraub, Mark et al. (1994). Sport and downtown development strategy: If you build it, will jobs come?. Journal of Urban Affairs Vol. 16(30): pp. 221-239.

Rosentraub, Mark S. (1996). Does the emperorer have new clothes?, a reply to Robert A. Baade. Journal of Urban Affairs, 18(1): pps. 23-31.

Siegfried, John and Andrew Zimbalist, "The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities," Journ. of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), Summer 2000, pp.95ff.

Sports Sites:

• Wimbledon (Tennis)