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VOTING BEHAVIOR, DISCRIMINATION AND THE NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
Author(s) -
FINDLAY DAVID W.,
REID CLIFFORD E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1997.tb02033.x
Subject(s) - league , voting , white (mutation) , latin americans , race (biology) , economics , advertising , political science , sociology , law , gender studies , business , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , astronomy , gene
We investigate whether black, Latin, and white major league baseball players receive the same consideration by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in voting for membership into The National Baseball Hall of Fame. The first stage of Heckman's two‐step procedure indicates that the probability a black player will ever receive at least one vote is significantly lower than that for his white counterpart. The second stage suggests that race or ethnicity sometimes matter in determining the number of votes a candidate receives for Hall of Fame membership. (JEL J7, D72)