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Is Baseball Shrouded In Collusion Once More? Assessing The Likelihood That The Current State Of The Free Agent Market Will Lead To Antitrust Liability For Major League Baseball's Owners, Connor Mulry

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

This Note examines how Major League Baseball’s (MLB) current free agent system is restraining trade despite the existence of the league’s non-statutory labor exemption from antitrust. The league’s players have seen their percentage share of earnings decrease even as league revenues have reached an all-time high. This reality is due to the players’ inability to “cash-in” when their market value hits its apex. Once these players enter the open market, their value has greatly deteriorated and consequently, they are unable to generate earnings commensurate with their value to the league.

This Note first explores the progression of MLB’s exemption from …

Restructuring Professional Sports Leagues , Martin Edel, Jamin Dershowitz, Jeffrey Kessler, Tandy O'Donoghue

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Labor Pains: Why Contraction Is Not The Solution To Major League Baseball’S Competitive Balance Problems, Bryan Day

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Baseball’S Antitrust Exemption: Out Of The Pennant Race Since 1972, Anthony Sica

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Antitrust And Baseball – A League Of Their Own, Y. Shukie Grossman

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Antitrust Implications Of Professional Sports Leagues Revisited: Emerging Trends In The Modern Era, The , Thane Rosenbaum

Faculty Scholarship

In a nation where sports entertainment is such a vital part of the American experience, it is somewhat surprising that the precise law governing the relationship between professional sports leagues and the Sherman Act is so noticeably confused and unsettled. Those who have sought uniformity in this area of law and scholarship had hoped to achieve some level of consistency between the highly developed principles embodied in traditional antitrust law, and that which seems to have evolved in the sports entertainment industry. What has remained from this academic if not athletic exercise is certainly not coherence, but rather a series …

In Re Brett: The Sticky Problem Of Statutory Construction, Jared Tobin Finkelstein

Fordham Law Review

George Brett's pine tar almost let the plague of modern life, lawyers, into the sole redeeming facet of modern life, baseball. Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

The Effect Of Collective Bargaining On The Baseball Antitrust Exemption, Scott A. Dunn

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Baseball remains the only professional sport exempt from anti-trust scrutiny. Because of this unique status, baseball players have not pursued anti-trust lines of attack. Some now say that baseball players no longer need to depend on the anti-trust laws to effectuate modifications in their reserve system. Such commentators say that because of the equal bargaining strength of the parties, the labor exemption would operate to shelter from scrutiny even a term that was unilaterally imposed by the owners. In Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, the Supreme Court held that the baseball industry …

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Fordham Law Review

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Baseball And The Antitrust Laws, John W. Neville

Fordham Law Review

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