The Supreme Court ruled against a Baltimore baseball team 100 years ago, leading to MLB’s current antitrust exemption
BALTIMORE — More than a dozen men gathered for a banquet at Baltimore’s Belvedere Hotel in March 1914, and though they were set to embark into challenging, uncharted territory, they were brash and confident. The men were the stakeholders of the new Federal League — a rival to the established…
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