Re: NBC, You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself

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From: Aaron Pound
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00

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"Lloyd R. Parker" wrote:

> David J. Grabiner (grabiner@wcnet.org) wrote:
>
> : Baseball *did* use its antitrust exemption to do this before there was a
> : union; there was a long-established rule that no player would be paid
> : over $100,000.  In addition, players who jumped contracts to play in the
> : Mexican League were barred from the game.
>
> Guess you don't remember Curt Flood.

Brush up on your history.  Curt Flood lost.  Blackmun wrote the opinion for
the U.S. Supreme Court.  You can find it by looking for Flood v. Kuhn.

Aaron J. Pound, Esquire

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