The Exemption of Baseball from Federal Antitrust Laws: A Legal History

Editor’s note: This article was published in SABR’s 1994 Baseball Research Journal (Vol. 23).   As major league baseball continues to deliver self­-inflicted wounds to itself in the form of a players strike, the issue of baseball’s long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws has resurfaced. While today’s ballplayers and owners recently scrapped in conference rooms … Continue reading The Exemption of Baseball from Federal Antitrust Laws: A Legal History