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Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster: Winning Teams or Losing Teams?
F. Andrew Hanssen1
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James W. Meehan Jr.2*
1 Montana State University
2 Colby College
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jwmeehan{at}colby.edu.
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In this article, the authors investigate the process of racial integration in Major League Baseball, critiquing the empirical approach used by Goff, McCormick, and Tollison (GMT; 2002). GMT claim to find evidence suggesting that winners integrated fastest. This study shows that when their empirical model is properly specified, the results do not support that conclusion. Several alternative tests are employed and the evidence is inconclusive—if anything, there is some weak support for the hypothesis that losers integrate faster.
First published on October 2, 2008, doi:10.1177/1527002508322593
Journal of Sports Economics 2009;10:141.
A more recent version of this article appeared on April 1, 2009

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