Maisonave v. Newark Bears Professional Baseball Club, Inc.

The first recorded baseball game took place at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken on June 19,1846. Leonard Koppett, Koppett’s Concise History of Major League Baseball 7 (2004). Since then, the game has become an integral part of our American identity *74and has emerged as an ever-expanding business. George F. Will, Bunts 28 (1999) (“The business of America is business, and so, of course, is the national pastime.”); see also Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258, 282, 92 S.Ct. 2099, 2112, 32 L.Ed.2d 728, 743 (1972) (“Professional baseball is a business and is engaged in interstate commerce.”). Between 1994 and…