Major League Baseball or MLB should not recieve anymore the benefits of the antitrust exemption. The antritust laws are there to support and protect the consumer , fans int this case, from monopoly and greedy corporations/busissnes.Antitrust laws were designed to protect the consumer and it is up to Congress to remove their exemption from antitrust laws.Therefore,I dont agree with the MLB recieving the antitrust exemption because Baseball, it is sport that cross and goes beyond state lines, it is a profitable bussines that act against labors laws and payers rights, and it is sport, that based in this law, give too much power and benefits to the owners. First, beisball it is a sport that crossed and goes beyond state line. On May 22, 1922,the Supreme Court, ruled in the the Federal Baseball Club v. National League case, against the first one, comming to the conclusion that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to Major League Baseball. This was based that: a}professional baseball was not within the scope of federal antitrust law, which governs only interstate commerce. b} Since baseball games were “purely state affairs” taking place in only a single state and the only way to follow the action was by
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Consequently, Therefore,I dont agree with the MLB recieving the antitrust exemption because Baseball, it is sport that cross and goes beyond state lines, it is a profitable bussines that act against labors laws and payers rights, and it is sport, that based in this law, give too much power and benefits to the
Consequently, Therefore,I dont agree with the MLB recieving the antitrust exemption because Baseball, it is sport that cross and goes beyond state lines, it is a profitable bussines that act against labors laws and payers rights, and it is sport, that based in this law, give too much power and benefits to the