Danny Gardella : typescript, 1999, June 27 : baseball's first real free agent / by Al Figone, Ph.D. 1999.

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Danny Gardella : typescript, 1999, June 27 : baseball's first real free agent / by Al Figone, Ph.D. 1999.

"This paper will examine the legal issues involving the Gardella v. Chandler case where the plaintiff argued that the blacklisting of players who had "jumped" the Mexican League was a restraint of trade in violation of antitrust statutes. Such an analysis will reveal that baseball's exemption form antitrust legislation, established with tortured logic in 1922, most likely would not have survived judicial scrutiny had this case proceeded to trial"--Introduction.

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Figone, Al.

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Chandler, Happy, 1898-

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Gardella, Danny, 1920-2005.

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