Editing Monopoly (section)

==== Baseball ====
In 1922, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]] ruled in [[Federal Baseball Club v. National League]] that baseball was not the kind of commerce intended to be affected by federal antitrust, thus making baseball exempt from antitrust laws.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baade |first=R.A |date=2018 |title=The Curious Case of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption |journal=Journal of Sports Economics |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=438–455}}</ref> The Supreme Court maintained their original ruling in both 1953 and 1972 when the issue was brought up in court. As a legal monopoly, the MLB has not had any competition in the American market since the early 1960s, from the defunct [[Continental League]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hylton |first=J. Gordon |date=1999 |title=Why Baseball's Antitrust Exemption Still Survives |url=https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1430&context=sportslaw |journal=Marquette Sports Law Review |volume=9 |issue=2 |at=Article 11}}</ref>