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The Tumultuous History Of Baseball And The Law

Who decided baseball wasn't interstate commerce?

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Ed. note: Indulge your inner nerd! Welcome to our daily legal trivia question. Lawyerly types are, at heart, type-A personalities that thrive on learning random bits of (mostly) useless trivia. Enjoy!

Frequently criticized, but still the law of the land, which Supreme Court justice penned the unanimous decision which codified the antitrust exemption for baseball?

Hint: As the World Series begins today, it’s appropriate to revisit Federal Baseball Club v. National League, the infamous case which gave rise to the legal anomaly. The decision held that baseball was not interstate commerce and therefore outside the scope of the Sherman Act.

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Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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