Re: moneyball

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are lots of articles about discrimiantion in pro. sports in the US.
It appears that pay for superstars is color blind; for benchwarmers,
whites earn a premium, especially in basketball where they are visible to
the crowd.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:38:34PM -0500, Forstater, Mathew wrote:
> Marc Lavoie at U. of Ottawa has written on sports in Canada, some of it
> on discrimination against French-Canadians.  A friend of mine from the
> New School did his dissertation on political economy of baseball under
> the late David M. Gordon's supervision. A U Mass grad student also did a
> political economy of baseball dissertation a few years back.

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