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Baseball’s back! Cactus League expects full crowds, significant economic impact with 2023 spring training

The league hopes for a rebound of the economic impact that ASU researchers say pre-pandemic seasons generated for the state.

In this article published Feb. 24, 2023, on Cronkite News:

Although the Cactus League generated $644.2 million in impact from the 2018 season, according to a report conducted by the W. P. Carey School of Business, the league lost over half of those gains in 2020, generating only $363 million in total impact.


L. William Seidman Research Institute

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