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"MLB owners share a higher percentage and a much larger amount of local revenue than their counterparts in the NFL do. MLB teams are required to put 48% of their locally derived revenue -- local media and ballpark revenue foremost among them -- into a pool that is divided equally among the 30 teams. NFL teams, however, share just 40% of ticket sales, and nothing of the ancillary revenues derived at the stadium."