Jerold J. Duquette

Regulating the National Pastime (eBook, PDF)

Baseball and Antitrust

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Major League Baseball, alone among industries of its size in the United States, operates as an unregulated monopoly. This 20th-century regulatory anomaly has become known as the baseball anomaly. Major League Baseball developed into a major commercial enterprise without being subject to antitrust liability. Long after the interstate commercial character of baseball had been established and even recognized by the Supreme Court, baseball's monopoly remained free from federal regulation. Duquette explains the baseball anomaly by connecting baseball's regulatory status to the larger political environment, tracing the game's fate through four different regulatory regimes. The constellation of institutional, ideological, and political factors within each regulatory regime provides the context for the survival of the baseball anomaly. Duquette shows baseball's unregulated monopoly persists because of the confluence of institutional, ideological, and political factors which have prevented the repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to date. However, both the institutional and ideological factors are fading fast. Baseball's owners can no longer claim special cultural significance in defense of their exemption. Nor can they credibly claim that the commissioner system approximates government regulation effectively. Both of these strategies have been discredited by the labor unrest of the 1980s and 1990s. Duquette provides a unique perspective on American regulatory politics, and by explaining a complicated story in comprehensive prose, he has given researchers, policy makers, and fans a fascinating look at the business of baseball.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313001178
• Artikelnr.: 37811107

Autorenporträt

JEROLD J. DUQUETTE is Professor of Political Science at Central Connecticut State University, USA. Professor Duquette has worked as a congressional staffer on Capitol Hill as well as in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Progressivism and the Baseball Anomaly The New
Deal Era and the Baseball Anomaly The New Politics of the Old Ball Game The
Baseball Anomaly in the 1990s Conclusion--The Future of the Baseball
Anomaly Bibliography Index