Minor League Baseball: Boom Or Bust To Communities?

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one who can call a strike. “Just the national
pastime, played the game it is,” says one editor of The Minor League Baseball
Book.
There are currently 156 teams that are part of the National Association
of Professional Baseball. This number will grow in the next few years with the
addition of two expansion teams at the major league level. There have also been
a number of independent leagues formed which are said to be the “future of minor
league baseball.” The success of these teams have shown how the value of these
franchises have grown over the past ten years. In the past, class AAA teams
would sell for three hundred thousand dollars while a smaller class A team went
for fifty thousand. Today the class AAA teams are being sold for as high as
five million dollars while class A teams are going for around one million. The
best example of the fact that franchises have grown in value over the years is
the Reading Phillies. Joe Buzas, a minor league baseball entrepreneur, ...

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and should have a life of more than two decades.
If the stadium and team are to be evaluated as a true community resource, they
must serve the entire community. If a stadium is utilized during the winter
months, when baseball is not played, not only will a community's quality of life
be enhanced, but the economic development function of the stadium will be
maximized as well.
The addition of minor league baseball to an area can be an important
tool in revitalizing an area. The best example that comes to mind is the
Harrisburg Senators located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1980, after three
decades of decline, Harrisburg was one of the most distressed cities in the
nation. It had lost ...

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