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

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Stuart Banner is Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. A noted legal historian, he is the author of many books, including most recently American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own; Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On; and Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska.

Summary

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.

Additional text

This well-researched, well-written book merits a diverse audience, whether baseball fan, historian, public official, or legal scholar ... Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Banner, Stuart (Norman Abrams Professor of Law Banner, Banner Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199389728
• ISBN: 978-0-19-938972-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; USA, Baseball, LAW / Legal History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Legal History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas