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The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
By Banner, Stuart
- ISBN
- 9780199930296
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on February 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
In this important study, Banner (law, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) provides extensive treatment of organized baseball's battle with antitrust regulations. He goes back to 1879—before federal antitrust laws were in place—when baseball's reserve clause was devised, contractually binding a player to a team for the whole of his career. Banner refutes the long-standing analysis that competitive...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
