DOES CITY SIZE MATTER IN COMMERCIAL SPORTS SUCCESS

Today, one continually is informed by the various media outlets that so-called small-market teams cannot compete in the tope-level leagues of the several commercial sports. The macroeconomic theory generally used to support this contention involves (a) the macroeconomic measure of gross domestic product (GDP) and (b) the concentration of economic activity in a relatively small geographic area.

Commercial sports teams sited in areas with high concentrations of economic activity supposedly can (a) get a little bit of money from (b) each of a great number of people through (c) several income streams [e.g., ticket sales, television and radio licenses to broadcast games, the sale of team memorabilia, and so forth]. The only difference in this equation for large city commercial sports teams and smaller city commercial

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