Baseball on Trial - Nathaniel Grow

Baseball on Trial

The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2014
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-07975-7 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
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 time.
The controversial 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. 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 time.
 
Currently a billion dollar enterprise, professional baseball teams crisscross the country while the games are broadcast via radio, television, and internet coast to coast. The sheer scope of this activity would seem to embody the phrase "interstate commerce." Yet baseball is the only professional sport--indeed the sole industry--in the United States that currently benefits from a judicially constructed antitrust immunity. How could this be?
 
Drawing upon recently released documents from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grow analyzes how the Supreme Court reached this seemingly peculiar result by tracing the Federal Baseball litigation from its roots in 1914 to its resolution in 1922, in the process uncovering significant new details about the proceedings. Grow observes that while interstate commerce was measured at the time by the exchange of tangible goods, baseball teams in the 1910s merely provided live entertainment to their fans, while radio was a fledgling technology that had little impact on the sport. The book ultimately concludes that, despite the frequent criticism of the opinion, the Supreme Court's decision was consistent with the conditions and legal climate of the early twentieth century.

Nathaniel Grow is an associate professor of business law and ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rivalry Begins2. The Opening Salvos3. The Federal League Strikes Back4. The Landis Case5. The Long Wait6. An Aborted Trial7. Baltimore Goes to Trial, Again8. The Defense and Verdict9. The Appeal and Final DecisionEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Zusatzinfo 26 black and white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 481 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Ballsport
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Wettbewerbsrecht
ISBN-10 0-252-07975-2 / 0252079752
ISBN-13 978-0-252-07975-7 / 9780252079757
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