This picture is the author in 1974 when the entire Nutley Little League went to Williamsport, PA for a weekend and each team played one game on the LLWS field. And, yes, sadly this is a ground-out to the pitcher.
Chapter 1: Should You Help Your Kid Become a Pro Athlete?
Michael B. Ransom and Tyler Ransom, “Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character? Bounding Causal Estimates of Sports Participation,” Economics of Education Review 64 (2018): 75–89.
(Not exactly economics but...) Sameer K. Deshpande, Raiden B. Hasegawa, Jordan Weiss, Dylan S. Small, "The Association Between Adolescent Football Participation and Early Adulthood Depression", PLoS ONE 15 (2020).
The Economics of College Sports: Craig Garthwaite, Jordan Keener, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Nicole F. Ozminkowski, "Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports", NBER Working Paper 27,734, 2020.
Chapter 2: What Do Silicon Valley and Czech Women’s Tennis Have in Common?
Chapter 5: Why Do Athletes Use Their Least Successful Moves So Often?
Chapter 6: How Does Discrimination Lead to a Proliferation of French Canadian Goalies?
Stephanie Apstein, "Why Baseball is Losing Black America", Sports Illustrated, July 17, 2020.
Lawrence M. Kahn, "The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball", in The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics: Economics Through Sports, Volume 2, 2012.
Pramad Sur and Masaru Sasaki, "Measuring customer discrimination: evidence from the professional cricket league in India", Journal of Sports Economics 21 (2020): 420-448.
Jeffrey Ely, Romain Gauriot, and Lionel Pager, "Do agents maximise? Risk taking on first and second serves in tennis", Journal of Economic Psychology 63 (2017): 135-142.
Chapter 7: How Do Ticket Scalpers Make the World a Better Place?
Chapter 8: Why Should You Be Upset If Your Hometown Hosts the Olympics?
Chapter 9: Who Wins When People Gamble?
Tobias J. Moskowitz, "Asset Pricing and Sports Betting", Journal of Finance 76 (2021): 3153-3209.
Christopher Avery and Judith Chevalier, "Identifying Investor Sentiment from Price Paths: The Case of Football Betting", Journal of Business 72 (1999): 493-521.
Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963.
The Gambler (movie starring James Caan), 1974 -- an account of the downsides of sports gambling.