U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, known by some as the "savior of baseball" for her role as a judge in ending the 1994 players’ strike, revisited the legal issues surrounding the national pastime on May 22.
Sotomayor presided over a Supreme Court Historical Society re-enactment of Flood v. Kuhn, the 1972 decision that re-affirmed the court’s much criticized position that pro baseball was exempt from antitrust laws. Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, representing player Curt Flood, pleaded with Sotomayor to end the exemption and "not to do what Tommy John did commit three errors in a single play."
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