Posts tagged 'Major League Baseball'

March 18, 2009
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The Curious Case of Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball, or MLB, has enjoyed a federal antitrust exemption since 1922 due to a Supreme Court's ruling that the sport did not engage in interstate commerce. Quite curious because even back then, teams had to cross state lines to play each other, but the ruling has nonetheless stayed on the books, so to speak, ever since. The ruling was reaffirmed in 1953 and again in 1972 in the C...