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

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

"In Baseball on Trial, legal scholar Nathaniel Grow defies conventional wisdom to explain 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 t...

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Main Author: Grow, Nathaniel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Subjects:
United States. > Sherman Act
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs > Trials, litigation, etc
Baseball > Law and legislation > United States > History
Antitrust law > United States > History
Professional sports contracts > United States > History
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Table of 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

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