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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Nov 9, 1953... US Supreme Court decides that baseball is a sport, not a business, and therefore not subject to the anti-trust laws. That protects baseball's reserve clause.

Dec 2, 1953. First meeting of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Bob Feller elected first president.

I gotta figure about this time the two leagues have gotten together and united as Major League Baseball. We'd think it would be before the players, but it might have been in response to them.