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The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Daniel R. Levitt
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-09 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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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
The Outlaw League and the Battle That Forged Modern Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Daniel R. Levitt
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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 Federal League of Base Ball Clubs
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Robert Peyton Wiggins
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-30 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
Baseball on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Nathaniel Grow
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-15 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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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 Meets the Law
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Ed Edmonds
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: McFarland

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Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting hou