Put yourself back in 1922.

Warren G. Harding is president.

Hi, countrymen.

First, blaming parts of Americanism was lighted in framing the federal constitution in 1787.

It's a time so long ago that only a couple of years earlier, a radio station reporting

mostly live results of the 1920 presidential election begins its broadcast with the equivalent

of, is this thing on?

This is K.D. K.A.

of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

We shall now broadcast the election returns.

We depreciate it if anyone hearing this broadcast would communicate with us as we are very

anxious to know how far the broadcast is reaching and how it is being received.

It just so happens that 1922 was a notable year for another reason.

That year, the Supreme Court made a decision in favor of major league baseball.

It's a decision so unique, baseball has enjoyed the fruits of the ruling all alone for more

than 100 years because 1922 was the year that the U.S. Supreme Court made the quizzical

decision to grant baseball an exemption from antitrust laws.

Because according to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, quote, the business of giving exhibitions

of baseball are purely state affairs.

End quote.

And therefore, do not violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, even though Holmes also admitted

that, quote, in order to attain for these exhibitions, the great popularity that they

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