Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 18, 2005
Exactly

Via Instapundit, Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune sums up my feelings on the steroid hearings pefectly.

Update: Sam Jaffe has a different take on the editorial. I would like to point out a factual error in Sam's piece, however. It was the Supreme Court, not Congress, that gave baseball its anti-trust exemption.

Correction: Fixed a broken link.

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Just a little fillip on the anti-trust exemption: my understanding is that the Supreme Court ruled that Congress never meant for baseball to be included in the anti-trust law, and that since that time Congress has occasionally threatened to take away the "exemption" but has never done so. Therefore in my view it would be correct to say that Congress created the exemption, and equally correct to say the Supreme Court did.

Posted by: Capybara at March 18, 2005 02:29 PM

Actually, Congress did enact legislation in the 1990s to reduce the scope of the exemption. In addition, baseball enjoys the same statutory exemption that all of the other major sports leagues do when negotiating national television contracts.

And let's not forget the players union--like all unions organized under federal labor law--enjoys a state-granted monopoly over collective bargaining rights. That fact is almost never mentioned by sports writers when bashing the owners' exemption.

Posted by: Skip Oliva at March 18, 2005 07:10 PM

The Tribune link in the first sentence goes to the Andrew Clem site. You can get to the Trib by clicking on the link to Sam Jaffe, where it's linked.

Posted by: Linkmeistet at March 18, 2005 08:43 PM
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