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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779573103321

Autore

Banner Stuart <1963->

Titolo

The baseball trust [[electronic resource] ] : a history of baseball's antitrust exemption / / Stuart Banner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-997469-1

0-19-025457-2

1-299-45693-6

0-19-993030-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

344.73099

Soggetti

Baseball - Law and legislation - United States

Sports - Law and legislation - United States

Antitrust law - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The reserve clause -- The baseball trust -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The birth of the antitrust exemption -- Baseball becomes unique -- A political football -- Three months of state antitrust law -- The Curt Flood case -- The end of the reserve clause -- A shrunken exemption.

Sommario/riassunto

The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labour conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it - that baseball is exempt. This book illuminates the series of court rulings that resulted in one of the most curious features of the US legal system: baseball's exemption from antitrust law.