In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of
Chronicles the 1913-1915 battle between baseball's newly-formed Federal League versus the established National and American leagues, and discusses the short- an
The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment
The controversial 1922 Federal Baseball Supreme Court ruling held that the "business of base ball" was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act because it did n
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting hou