TY - BOOK AU - Banner,Stuart TI - The baseball trust: a history of baseball's antitrust exemption SN - 9780190254575 (ebook) : AV - KF3989 .B36 2013 U1 - 343.730721 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Baseball KW - Law and legislation KW - United States KW - History KW - Antitrust law KW - Professional sports contracts N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199930296.001.0001 ER -