Archive Report
Archive Report
The Legality of certain restrictive practices in organized sports—practices which have been challenged repeatedly in recent years—may now be on the way to final determination either by the courts or by Congress. Most controversial of present issues in this field are the player contracts peculiar to professional sports and the limitations on radio and television coverage of sporting events. Despite considerable litigation in the past, doubt still surrounds the status under the antitrust laws of these and other restrictions imposed in the name of athletic competition and the financial welfare of organized sports.
Baseball will undergo an exhaustive investigation by the monopoly sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Celler (D., N. Y.) has announced that Ty Cobb, a baseball immortal, will be the first ...