Baseball on trial : the origin of baseball's antitrust exemption / Nathaniel Grow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grow, Nathaniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antitrust law--United States--History.

Antitrust law.

Professional sports contracts--United States--History.

Professional sports contracts.

United States. Sherman Act.

United States.

National League of Professional Baseball Clubs--Trials, litigation, etc.

National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1922 Federal Baseball Supreme Court ruling held that the 'business of base ball' was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act because it did not constitute interstate commerce. This work explains why the unanimous Supreme Court opinion authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, which gave rise to Major League Baseball's exemption from antitrust law, was correct given the circumstances of the time.

Contents:

The rivalry begins : 1913

The opening salvos : December 1913 to June 1914

The federal league strikes back : June 1914 to December 1914

The Landis Case : January 1915

The long wait : February 1915 to February 1916

An aborted trial : February 1916 to June 1917

Baltimore goes to trial, again : June 1917 to April 1919

The defense : April 1919

The appeal and final decision : May 1919 to October 1922.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print verison record.

ISBN:

9780252095993

0252095995

OCLC:

884725783