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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Op
Calendar No. 332
104TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session SENATE 104-231
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL REFORM ACT OF 1995
FEBRUARY 6, 1996.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany S. 627]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 627) to apply the antitrust laws of the United States to major
league baseball, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Text of S. 627, as reported ........................................................................... 2
II. P u rpose ........................................................................................................... 2
III. Legislative history ....................................................................................... 3
IV. Vote of the com m ittee .................................................................................... 4
V . D iscussion ....................................................................................................... 5
A. Background of baseball's exemption ............................................... 6
B. General applicability of the antitrust laws ..................................... 7
C. Impact of exemption on baseball's labor relations ........................ 9
D. Owners' arguments for special treatment under the antitrust
law s ................................................................................................. . 11
VI. Section-by-section analysis .......................................................................... 14
V II. C ost estim ate ................................................................................................. 15
VIII. Regulatory im pact statem ent ........................................................................ 16
IX. Additional views of Senator Thurmond ....................................................... 17
X. M inority views of Senator Specter ............................................................... 19
XI. M inority views of Senator Sim on ................................................................. 21
XII. Minority views of Senator Brown and Feinstein ......................................... 23
XIII. M inority views of Senator Feinstein ............................................................ 29
XIV. Changes in existing law ................................................................................ 30
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