Baseball's 1922 Anti-Trust Exemption makes Sam Zell just conversation
(ChicagoSports): "Yet (Sam) Zell has to conduct the auction knowing that MLB's owners have the final say in approving the transaction.
- Unlike other sports,
- baseball can block sales and franchise moves because of a
- It also doesn't hurt if the new owner already has Selig's phone number
- on speed dial, Stone said.
- Their $700 million offer was $90 million less than a rival offer, leading to accusations from the Massachusetts attorney general that the sale was rigged....
- Lewis Wolff, who bought the Oakland Athletics in 2005, went to the University of Wisconsin
- with Selig where they were
- That same year, the Washington Nationals were sold to Theodore Lerner, a prominent real-estate developer in the Washington, D.C., area. (Who) received a boost when Stan Kasten, the former president of the Atlanta Braves, joined his ownership group."...
- (It's impossible to believe the 1922 exemption intended to protect what's going on today. Unfortunately, Doug Pappas is no longer living. When he was alive, one could actually imagine the exemption would be repealed someday (at least I could by reading his work). That is no longer the case). sm
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