The Baseball Trust - A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption

Zusatztext This well-researched, well-written book merits a diverse audience, whether baseball fan, historian, public official, or legal scholar ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Stuart Banner is a law professor at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including most recently American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own (2011). He is a Mets fan and a former little league coach. Klappentext The Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball's strange exemption from antitrust law. Told through a frequently riveting and always entertaining history of America's pastime, author Stuart Banner emphasizes the strategies baseball has used to achieve a protected legal status enjoyed by no other industry in America. Zusammenfassung The Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball's strange exemption from antitrust law. Told through a frequently riveting and always entertaining history of America's pastime, author Stuart Banner emphasizes the strategies baseball has used to achieve a protected legal status enjoyed by no other industry in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Reserve Clause 2. The Baseball Trust 3. The Supreme Court Steps In 4. The Birth of the Antitrust Exemption 5. Baseball Becomes Unique 6. A Political Football 7. Three Months of State Antitrust Law 8. The Curt Flood Case 9. The End of the Reserve Clause 10. A Shrunken Exemption

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Banner, Banner Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9780199930296
• ISBN: 978-0-19-993029-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Baseball, LAW / Legal History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Legal History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas