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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Side note: Ever wonder why the closed league model is so prevalent in the U.S. while promotion/relegation open league model is so prevalent in Europe? I came across a paper which looked for reasons as to why these different approaches were taken. And the answer seemed to boil down to geography. If anyone has access to JSTOR through their local public library, you should be able to download and read the paper for yourself.
The paper is entitled "Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures: Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports League" and was written by Louis P. Cain and David D. Haddock. It was originally published in The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Dec. 2005). It's worth a look if one is curious about how the different league models came to be so widespread in each region.
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Save yourself the thirty-four bucks and get it here:
http://econ.queensu.ca/CNEH/2005/pap...k_CNEH2005.pdf