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The Politics of Baseball and the Anti-Trust Exemption
Major League Baseball, unlike the other professional sports in the United States, has been exempt from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act since 1922, meaning that no competitive professional baseball league can be established to directly compete with MLB for its players, fans, or markets. Still, that hasn't prevented a few United States legislators from threatening to introduce legislation that would repeal that exemption because -- well -- listen to this episode that focuses on one Stuart Symington, a senator from Missouri, who strong-armed American League president Joe Cronin in 1967 to replace the…
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