Document Type
Article
Abstract
Economists frequently study the determinants of baseball players’ wages. Researchers usually control for measures of productivity such as the player's batting average, home runs, and runs batted in, education, age, and experience. This study differs from standard studies in that it considers players’ country of origin in the 1920s and 1930s, years before Jackie Robinson’s debut. It uses information on player productivity from Baseball-Reference.com, player salary information from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (graciously shared by its compiler), and information on college attendance provided by Who's Who in Baseball (held at the Joyce Sports Collection, Notre Dame University). It concludes that although there is documented evidence of racial discrimination against Latinos, the discrimination probably did not take the form of lower salaries.
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
17
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
15
Copyright
©2015 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cullen, Tom
(2015)
"Latinos in the Major Leagues from 1920 to 1939: A Human Capital Approach,"
Major Themes in Economics, 17, 1-15.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol17/iss1/3