Key Events and Figures in Sports History and Gender Equality Practice Test

Baseball’s antitrust exemption comes from treating the game as a special national pastime, a status the Supreme Court reaffirmed in Toolson v. New York Yankees (1953). In that decision, the Court kept the baseball exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act in place, arguing that baseball occupies a unique cultural role as a national pastime and should be governed differently from other businesses. It also stressed that any change to this legal stance would have to come from Congress, not the courts. The other choices aren’t correct because they aren’t the real Supreme Court ruling that established this national-pastime justification for baseball’s special treatment.