How Federal Base Ball lawsuit began
A jury awarded $240k in damages on 4/11/1919 in favor of the Baltimore Fed. L. club against the A.L. & N.L. for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The award would eventually be overturned by the US Supreme Court
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Hank Aaron experienced racial taunting during the 1973–74 #MLB seasons while he was chasing Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record
Aaron’s momentous 715th blast came on April 8, 1974. Hammering Hank finished his career with 755 homers.
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🎶You Must Remember This, a Kiss💋is Still a Kiss💋🎶
Morganna "The Kissing💋Bandit" Roberts began #OpeningDay 1970 at RFK Stadium with the "First Kiss💋of the Season." She ran onto the field and kissed💋a stunned Frank Howard on April 6, 1970.
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Leland “Larry” MacPhail, Sr., is one of the 11 attorneys enshrined in baseball hall of fame.
On April 5, 1934 he hired 26 year old Red Barber to broadcast Reds games
Read about MacPhail and the 10 others in:
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You bet...
On 4/3/15, #MLB fined Miami Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart an undisclosed amount of money for betting on sports other than baseball, a fact that became known through his Twitter account.
Cosart had a 5 year MLB career starting 72 games, going 16-23; 3.98 ERA
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Metropolitan Exhibition Co. v Ward, Abb. N. Cas. at 419 n a1 (1890), Justice Abraham R. Lawrence on 3/31/1890 dismissed Ward's challenge of the reserve clause without a trial because Ward did not submit a brief in his case
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The woman who helped save #MLB
3/30/95—the game’s divide,
Sonia Sotomayor stood firm and turned the tide.
Free agents freed, the bids returned,
Arbitration rights reaffirmed.
Collusion curbed, the balance regained—
A judge's ruling revived the game.
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#32 + #53 = $225K
Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale held-out for 32 days seeking more pay during the Spring Training of 1966
They ended their holdouts on March 29 when the Dodgers agreed to pay Sandy $120K & Don $105K, opening the door for other MLBPA members to do the same thing
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With all five National League East teams tied for first place, #BaseballandtheLaw suggests a 161 game tie breaker...
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Casey Caged
Casey Stengel, Baseball Hall of Fame manager was arrested and charged with assault and obscenity on 3/26/55.
A St. Pete Times photographer accused the 64 year-old #Yankee skipper of kicking and verbally abusing him
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Dancing in the Dark🎶
It was lights out for the #Cubs on 3/25/85 when a Judge turned out the Wrigley lights saying laws banning night BB in Chicago were legal. "The game of baseball may be everybody's business, but the business of baseball is greed"
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3/23/2015 the Court in Right Field Rooftops v Chicago Baseball Holdings held a hearing on Rooftops’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court ruled Rooftops failed to establish the threshold requirements for a preliminary injunction.
6 months later the suit was dismissed.
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The #WorldBaseballClassic was created by #MLB in 2005 to boost global interest in BB.
Japan won the inaugural championship on 3/20/06 at Petco Park before a capacity crowd of 42,696.
The 2026 #WBC was viewed on TV by more people in its history.
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After a late night at the #WorldBaseballClassic in Miami, we will be taking most of the day off.
Enjoy the video friends
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The WBC Championship game is more than three hours from now, and this is the line at loanDepot Park to get in.
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Tonight...
#BaseballandtheLaw will be live from Miami...
The World Baseball Classic Championship game!
The 1976 MLB owners’ lockout ended on March 17.
Owners agreed to limited free agency for players with six years of eligible service time.
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Climbing in the standings! ⚾🔥📈
Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame is now #2 in Sports Law on Amazon.
Turns out the intersection of baseball & the law is a bestseller waiting to happen.
amazon.com/Attorneys-Base…
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The House Before Ruth Built
The New York Times reported on 3/13/1903 the NY Highlanders (#Yankees) secured land on Manhattan Island to build a 16,000 seat ballpark, the "largest baseball grounds in the country"
Estimated cost to run the club for the 1st yr was $166,000
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“The Mills Commission” in 1907 released the "Origins of Base Ball" report, wrongly stating base ball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown in 1839.
Below:
Abraham Gilbert Mills (3/12/1844 - 8/26/1929), a Civil War officer who was president of the NL from 1882 - 84
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Knowledge of the rules of law and knowledge of the rules of baseball are critical
Exhibit Number One…
#BaseballandtheLaw Mark DeRosa ‘misspoke,’ and now Team USA’s manager must face more scrutiny www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...
Abe Lincoln and Base Ball
For years it was rumored that Abe Lincoln was playing base ball when he found out that he received the 1860 Republican nomination for president
The article below from the 3/11/1882 Freeport (Ill.) Daily Bulletin debunks the myth
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Did you know #MLB created the World Baseball Classic in 2005 as a means of boosting global interest in baseball?
The first #WBC was held in 2006 and was won by Japan. The last WBC held in 2023 was also won by Japan.
Want to learn about the history of the WBC?
Read: #BaseballandtheLaw pp 606-607
Only in Miami…
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Erasmo Ramirez on the hill for Nicaragua facing the Netherlands
@baseballandlaw.bsky.social will resume on Monday
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Greatest Yankees trade ever?
No players
No prospects
No cash considerations
In ‘73, pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson swapped their wives and kids
The story broke on 3/6/73
The trade worked for Peterson.
Kekich later split with Marilyn Peterson
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Marvin Miller, was elected as the 1st full-time executive director of the MLBPA on 3/5/66
Miller lead the organization from until '82, turning it into one of the strongest unions
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020, 8 years after his death.
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3/4/2004 #MLB announced "Jackie Robinson Day" would be an annual event held at all ballparks on April 15, the anniversary of Robinson's 1947 debut. In 1962 he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
MLB retired his number, 42, in 1997.
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