An error in the national pastime: antitrust exemption.(SPORTS AND EXERCISE)

In one of the most inexplicable decisions ever handed down, Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the 1922 opinion in Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs et al. that organized baseball was a sport characterized by the personal effort of players, but was not a business, with transportation of the athletes across state lines incidental to the exhibitions.