With sports business picking up steam heading into the final year of collective-bargaining agreements for the Big-4 North American sports leagues, there have been a lot of questions and commentary in the media.

The mischaracterization that MLB’s Competitive Balance Tax (or, as it’s more commonly known as, the Luxury Tax) monies is part of revenue-sharing, along with the aforementioned questions and commentary has led me to start a “Sports Labor 101” series of articles. These will be short and sweet posts that run on occasion. Today’s first installment is on ticket revenues in MLB.

Is There A Gate Split in MLB?

It used to be that the visiting team would get a percentage of the gate revenues, but when revenue-sharing was put in place starting in 1997, it was dissolved.

So...

There is no longer a gate split in Major League Baseball. Mark it down, fans and media.

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written by Larry@IIATMS, April 14, 2010

would you like to know how many post-1997 links I've seen to this split still being in place? Thanks Maury for clearing this up.

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Good concept
written by DCLawyer, April 18, 2010

I like the idea of a "101" series...perhaps all entries could be made part of a permanent link. I'd like to see them with a LITTLE more detail though...for instance, no gate sharing since 1997 when revenue sharing was put in. Why did revenue sharing mean that gate sharing went out? Had gate sharing always been part of the game? Why doesn't each team share the gate of each game 50-50%? Can't play without two teams.

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