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[0] Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs [1] 1922 [2] Alleged antitrust activities of Organized Baseball [3] The Baltimore franchise of the Federal League sued the American and National Leagues when the Federal League failed, leaving Baltimore without a professional team. [4] 
The Supreme Court ruled that Organized Baseball did not qualify as an illegal monopoly, declaring that baseball was inherently neither interstate nor commerce. Baseball seemed to have been given an exemption from antitrust law.
League cooperation necessary for fair play
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