TY - BOOK ID - 31000486 TI - The baseball trust PY - 2013 SN - 0190254572 1299456936 0199930309 0199389721 0199930295 9780199930302 9780199930296 0199974691 9780190254575 9781299456938 PB - Oxford New York Oxford Univ Press DB - UniCat KW - Baseball KW - Sports KW - Antitrust law KW - Law and legislation KW - Field sports KW - Pastimes KW - Recreations KW - Base-ball KW - Recreation KW - Athletics KW - Games KW - Outdoor life KW - Physical education and training KW - Ball games UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31000486 AB - 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. ER -