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Changes in National-Level Locational Pattern of Professional Sports Franchises in the U.S. during 1950-2001 : Focusing on Four Major Sports Leagues  

Pillsung Byun (Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona)
Ahn, Young-Jin (Department of Geography, Chonnam National University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.37, no.5, 2002 , pp. 498-510 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study has the following two focuses to analyze the changes in national-level locational pattern of the U.S. professional sports franchises during 1950-2001. The first is to empirically clarify spatial orientation in the changing locational pattern of sports franchises. The second is to identify compared characteristics of the relocation cases reflecting the orientation to other cases, for the variables indicative of franchises' and leagues' pursuits of their relocation-related interests ultimately affecting franchises' relocations, by employing a legit model. As a result of the analyses, sports franchises and leagues, respectively have shown spatial orientation toward relocating to and toward locating new franchises in southern and western areas, responding to the changes in U.S. urbanization pattern. And, relocation cases reflecting the orientation have displayed a feature of the higher annual population growth rate in destination urban area than in origin area, in comparison to other cases.
Keywords
Sports franchise; Sports league; Relocation; Expansion; Logit model;
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