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Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, et al. Unanimous 1922 Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, holding that the business of providing public baseball games for profit was not interstate commerce within the meaning of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and that an action for treble damages under the Anti-Trust Acts could not therefore be maintained by a baseball club against rival leagues and their constituent clubs. This decision established baseball's antitrust exemption — an exemption later rea…