The baseball trust :: a history of baseball's antitrust exemption /

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 - th...

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Main Author: Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ Press, ©2013.
Series:Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199930302
0199930309
9780190254575
0190254572
9781299456938
1299456936
Access:Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff.

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