In the scholarly journal article “Baseball: A Poor Substitue for Football-More Evidence of Sports Gambling as Consumption”, Rodney J. Paul of Syracuse University and Andrew P. Weinbach of Coastal Carolina University, suggest gambling is might be used as a method of consumption rather than an investment which is what most people would view it as. They develop this claim by first telling the reader about sports wagering. Then the authors explain what they were researching and how they were going to conduct their study. Afterwards Paul and Weinbach reveal their study and what the information means. They found people gamble on professional baseball because they have nothing else to wager on. During the summer there is no basketball and football
