A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events
by
Ed Edmonds, Frank G. Houdek
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town’s meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball’s exemption from...