This day in baseball: Continuing the antitrust exemption
Posted: November 9, 2014 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, history, legal, Major League Baseball, MLB, Sherman Antitrust Act, sports, Supreme Court of the United States 1 CommentOn November 9, 1953, the United States Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, baseball is a sport and not a business, and therefore, that it may continue to be exempt from antitrust laws. The decision upheld the precedent that baseball, unlike other professional sports, was not to be treated as a commercial enterprise nor to be subject to federal regulation.
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