Money Play.

AuthorTaylor, Jeff A.
PositionMore to sports than to the cities

More evidence that pro sports teams gobble public money with little public benefit: Economics professors at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County examined 37 cities with professional sports franchises between 1969 and 1996 and found that residents who got a new team paid for it with a net $6...

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