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Calling them as it sees them, the U.S. Supreme Court has touched off a lot of judicial rhubarbs during the last three decades by trying to decide whether the monopolistic foundations of professional sports make them liable to prosecution under the federal antitrust laws...
...owners from monopolizing all the best talent and thereby ruining the game as well as the gate. In 1922, and again in 1953, the Supreme Court, to the delight of the owners, ruled that baseball is a sport, not a business, and hence does not come under the federal antitrust laws. Last week the Supreme Court turned about...
...court ruled 6-3 that professional football, a brother to pro baseball, falls under the antitrust laws. The man who moved the court was a big (255 lbs.), broad former Detroit Lions guard named Bill Radovich, who had charged that pro footballers had illegally conspired to bar him from the game by means of the reserve clause. The court did not rule on the details of Radovich's complaint. Instead of throwing his appeal out of court, as it did in the past baseball cases, it ordered a lower court to hold trial on his charges. This opened...
...Congressmen responded with bills tagging baseball a business subject to antitrust laws, but a third moved in with a counterproposal to exempt all the big-league games-baseball, football, hockey and basketball-from the antitrust laws. Even in the warm sunshine of the training camps, baseball owners shivered to think of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would...
While some Detroiters gossiped that G.M., still scared by congressional investigations and antitrust threats, was purposely holding down production, few in the auto industry accepted that theory. The plain fact was that G.M.'s conservatively styled new models had not caught the fancy of the public as the more radical styling of Ford and Chrysler had. For this reason, automen thought that G.M. was probably gearing its production a bit closer to sales than either Ford or Chrysler. On the other hand, Ford's and Chrysler's models were selling so well that both were stepping...