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Origin of NFL Antitrust

The Scranton, Pennsylvania Times-Tribune on May 30, 1922 had this heading on their pages:

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"Origin of NFL Antitrust"

Last updated 📅 2025-05-29

The Scranton, Pennsylvania Times-Tribune on May 30, 1922 had this heading on their pages:

Organized Ball Not Trust, Says Highest Court
And this is our Newspapers.com Football History Headline of the day.

The Supreme Court, on this day in 1922, handed down a decision in the Federalist League vs. the National League case, where professional baseball was not under the jurisdiction of interstate commerce laws. This exemption remains in effect, even to this day, under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. While MLB is fully exempt, other pro sports are not.

The NFL has very limited freedoms concerning antitrust laws. 3 Supreme Court decisions in the 1950s upheld that professional football is subject to most federal antitrust and interstate commerce laws. Is this a double standard since baseball is exempt? Many still to this day think so.

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