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Geography Is Relocated Sports Franchises: The Economics And Heartbreak

2023/4/12
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📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff )📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobeThe SmartAssets study can be found here: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/cities-with-too-many-too-few-sports-teams)Professional sports teams move all the time in the United States and Canada. By operating under a unique system of governance, leagues can artificially inflate the values of their major league teams and convince cities and taxpayers to spend millions and billions of dollars on amenities. So when a team moves, what happens? What happens to the culture, the economy, and the very sense of place of the cities feeling the sting of relocation? Join Geoff and Hunter as they explore the crazy world of relocating sports franchises.