Organized baseball
Organized baseball is an archaic term that collectively describes
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), an agreement signed in 1901 that is considered the first to formally establish Minor League Baseball.[1] The agreement included provisions to respect the player reserve lists
of clubs in each league.
Organized baseball consisted of the two main "major" leagues, the
free agency). The league's collapse led to a Supreme Court ruling in 1922 that effectively established an antitrust exemption for MLB and Organized Baseball.[5]
Another notable "outlaw league" was the
blacklisted for having violated the reserve clause.[6] Faced with a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 1922 ruling, MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler offered amnesty to the jumpers in 1949, thus keeping organized baseball's antitrust exemption intact.[6][7] From then on, the Mexican League peacefully coexisted with organized baseball until 1955, when it was admitted as an affiliated minor league.[2]
Today, the term "organized baseball" is considered outdated, due to its ambiguous meaning and racial overtones; the Society for American Baseball Research instead recommends the term "affiliated baseball".[8]
See also
References
- ^ "How Minor League Baseball Teams Work: History of the Minors". howstuffworks.com. April 2000. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b "Monopsony in Manpower: Organized Baseball Meets the Antitrust Laws" (PDF). The Yale Law Journal: 583.
- ^ Echevarria, Roberto González (1999). The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. Oxford University Press. p. 44–47.
- ^ "Early Years". umass.edu. Jackie Robinson Educational Archives: University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
The baseball world that the young Jackie Robinson knew consisted of "Organized Baseball," a whites-only system of the eight-team National and American Leagues plus hundreds of minor-league teams; and the "Negro Leagues," which developed after 1900 as an alternative to the segregated white game.
- ^ "Anatomy of a Murder: The Federal League and the Courts". SABR. Society for American Baseball Research.
- ^ a b Bill Young (2017). "From Mexico to Quebec: Baseball's Forgotten Giants". SABR. Society for American Baseball Research.
- ^ "Gardella v. Chandler". Justia. July 13, 1948.
- ^ "SABR Style Guide". SABR. Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
Further reading
- "Organized Baseball". United States House Committee on the Judiciary. 1952.
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