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Marginal revenue product and salaries: Moneyball redux [PDF]
Scully (1974) used a two equation regression model to estimate a baseball player’s salary to compare to the actual salary the player earned in order to determine if a player is paid his net marginal revenue product. We replicate the spirit of that paper,
Rockerbie, Duane W
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More than a Game: Baseball and Southern Textile Communities 1880-1935 [PDF]
While labor unrest itself is no stranger to American history, the strikes across the Piedmont textile industry in 1934 present a curious case. Throughout the conflict, a sizeable portion of the workers remained loyal to their companies and those who ...
Perch, Aaron
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Researchers' Well‐Being Through My Academic Career in Japan, Germany and USA
Abstract Upon development of my academic career in Japan, Germany, and USA, I have increasingly recognized the importance of researchers' well‐being. While the research lifestyles in these three countries were distinct, it has been essential for me to maintain good well‐being for the sustainable development of my academic career.
Manabu Shiraiwa
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Despite the high prevalence of the yips, a task-specific movement disorder in athletes, effective exercise therapy remains elusive. This case report aimed to evaluate the impact of task-oriented training on throwing accuracy and kinematic variability in ...
Toshiyuki Aoyama +6 more
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Estimated Age Effects in Baseball [PDF]
Age effects in baseball are estimated in this paper using a nonlinear fixed-effects regression. The sample consists of all players who have played 10 or more "full-time" years in the major leagues between 1921 and 2004.
Ray C. Fair
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How to make people do things with words
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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The purpose of the study. This study examined whether perceived coach etiquette predicts intrinsic and extrinsic sport motivation among collegiate softball and baseball athletes in a selected Philippine university. Materials and methods.
Olivia Dimatulac +5 more
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Why are Americans Addicted to Baseball? An Empirical Analysis of Fandom in Korea and the U.S. [PDF]
Theories of rational addiction posit that certain habit -forming goods "characterized by an increasing marginal utility of consumption "generate predictable dynamic patterns of consumer behavior.
Trenton Smith, Young H. Lee
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ABSTRACT This study assessed general and more detailed post‐activation performance enhancement responses to cluster sets (CS) + accentuated eccentric loading (AEL) versus a traditional method (TRD) in vertical jump performance and strategy. Six men and six women completed lower‐body complex training: countermovement jump was performed at baseline and 1‐
Sungwon Chae +3 more
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Epidemiology of Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Iranian Baseball Premier League
Purpose: Baseball is a team sport that has a total of nine main players and includes explosive, endurance, and strength movements that can cause multiple injuries over a season due to repetitive movements, long training, and competition.
Mohammad Hossein Archin +3 more
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