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Mar. 12, 2013

Baseball, a unique antitrust exemption

"The Baseball Trust" is about one of the oddest features of our legal system, the near-complete exemption of baseball from antitrust law.


"The Baseball Trust" is about one of the oddest features of our legal system, the near-complete exemption of baseball from antitrust law. Every other sport - like virtually every sort of business - is governed by the antitrust laws, but not baseball. In a legal system with no shortage of quirks, this one may be the most famous, because it is frequently discussed in the sports media. Most sports fans may have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, but if...

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