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Discusses professional baseball's exemption from anti-trust law, the rise and fall of the reserve clause, player unions, collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, the collusion question, gambling, and other legal issues that affect the sport
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Illuminates the sometimes uproarious, sometimes ignominious relationship between law and baseball, looking at key personalities and concepts behind baseball's antitrust exemption, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration, and discussing drug use and gambling, enforcement of contracts, and the rights of owners and managers. Speculates on the implications of the 1996 collective bargaining agreement, and ponders emerging issues such as intellectual property, eminent domain, and gender equity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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