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Strike Out Antitrust Exemption

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940916
Author:Editorials

When Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes exempted baseball from antitrust laws in 1922, he based his ruling on the belief that baseball is more a game than a business.

This season-ending strike ought to be proof enough that baseball now is more a business than a game. And that ought to be reason enough to end its antitrust exemption.

Fans are lamenting the end of an era, the injustice of a world without a World Series, the greed of multimillionaire owners or, depending on their perspective, the greed of overpaid players.

What fans can't do, however, is take their discontent to ...

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