Competition in Professional Baseball Act

S. 1111 · 117th Congress · Apr 14, 2021 · Lineage

A BILL

To subject professional baseball clubs to the antitrust laws.

This Act may be cited as the “Competition in Professional Baseball Act”.

(a)

Definition— In this section, the term antitrust laws—

(1)

has the meaning given the term in subsection (a) of the first section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12); and

(2)

includes section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) to the extent that such section applies to unfair methods of competition.

(b)

Removal of exemption— Professional baseball clubs shall not be exempt from the antitrust laws.

(c)

Repeal— Section 27 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 26b) is repealed.