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Author Grow, Nathaniel, author

Title Baseball on trial : the origin of baseball's antitrust exemption / Nathaniel Grow
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

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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 and verdict : April 1919 -- The appeal and final decision : May 1919 to October 1922
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Sherman Act.
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT National League of Professional Baseball Clubs fast
Sherman Act (United States) fast
Subject Baseball -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Antitrust law -- United States -- History
Professional sports contracts -- United States -- History
LAW -- Military.
LAW -- Legal History.
Trials
Antitrust law
Baseball -- Law and legislation
Professional sports contracts
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718485
ISBN 9780252095993
0252095995
1306980828
9781306980821