why is baseball exempt from antitrust laws
The exemptionâs origin is a 1922 Supreme Court case called Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League, in which the Court held that the federal antitrust laws did not apply to baseball, because these laws only governed interstate commerce, and baseball was not a form of interstate commerce.tuart Banner is the Norman Abrams Professor of Law at UCLA. His latest book, The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseballâs Antitrust Exemption (2013), has just been published by Oxford University Press.