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

by Stuart Banner

Book Overview

The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor 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.

In The Baseball Trust, legal historian Stuart Banner illuminates the series of court rulings that resulted in one of the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199389721
• ISBN13: 9780199389728
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"