Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc.

In Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, 259 U. S. 200 *357(1922), this Court held that the business of providing public baseball games for profit between clubs of professional baseball players was not within the scope of the federal antitrust laws. Congress has had the ruling under consideration but has not seen fit to bring such business under these laws by legislation having prospective effect. The business has thus been left for thirty years to develop, on the understanding that it was not subject to existing antitrust legislation. The present…