Sport and the law
Subtitle: historical and cultural intersections
By: edited by Samuel O. Regalado and Sarah K. Fields
Series: Sport, culture & society; Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781557286666; 9781610755498
Subjects: Law and legislation; Sports
Description: "Sport and the Law examines not only how athletes looked to the nation's judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases transformed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Haywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball's antitrust status; the Danny Gardella lower level 1948 case regarding free agency and baseball; Muhammad Ali's celebrated stance against the US draft; Renée Richards's 1976 lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association and its due process ramifications; and human rights violations in international law with respect to the increased recruitment of underage Latin baseball players in the Caribbean region. Sport and the Law links these cases to other cases and topics, giving the reader the opportunity to see the threads weaving law and sport together n American society"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Clay, a.k.a. ali v. U.S. (1971): Muhammad Ali, precedent, and the Burger Court  -- Samuel O. Regalado; title: Odd bedfellows: Spencer Haywood and Justice William O. Douglas  -- Sarah K. Fields; title: The Flood case, 1972  -- Richard C. Crepeau; title: How the Burger Court came to be  -- Steven P. Gietscher; title: Danny Gardella and baseball's reserve clause: a working-class stiff blacklisted in Cold War America  -- Ron Briley; title: Powerlifting's watershed: Frantz v. United States Powerlifting, the legal case that changed the nature of a sport  -- Thomas M. Hunt and Janice S. Todd; title: Thirty-five years after Richards v. USTA: the continued significance of transgender athletes' participation in sports  -- Anne L. DeMartini; title: "Clean up the abuses": building a rule-of-law culture for Major League Baseball's operations in Latin America  -- Arturo J. Marcano and David P. Fidler; title: Matter of basic fairness: Ed O'Bannon takes the NCAA to court -- Daniel A. Nathan.