Kid on the Sandlot: Congress and Professional Sports, 1910-1992

by Stephen R. Lowe

As the role and influence of professional sports has increased in American life, so has the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the professional sports world. Since WW II, Congress has held dozens of investigations and debated hundreds of bills on subjects such as organized baseball's antitrust exemption, the NFL's television blackout policy, the role of organized crime in professional boxing, the league mergers in professional football and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879726768
• ISBN13: 9780879726768
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"