| Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law Contributor(s): Abrams, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566398908 ISBN-13: 9781566398909 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: If baseball is the heart of America, the legal process provides the sinews that hold it in place. It was the legal process that allowed William Hulbert to bring club owners together in a New York City hotel room in 1876 to form the National League, and ninety years later, it allowed Marvin Miller to change a management-funded fraternity of ballplayers into the strongest trade union in America. But how does collective bargaining and labor arbitration work in the major leagues? Why is baseball exempt from the antitrust laws? In Legal Bases, Roger Abrams has assembled an all-star baseball law team whose stories illuminate the sometimes uproarious, sometimes ignominious relationship between law and baseball that has made the business of baseball a truly American institution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - General - Law | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Dewey: 344.730 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.04" W x 9.06" (0.78 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Examines such issues as drug use and gambling, enforcement of contracts, and the rights of owners and managers. The author reveals an all-star baseball law team whose stories illuminate relationship between law and baseball that has made the business of baseball a truly American institution. |