Donald fehr ruined baseball cards
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Bud Selig, Donald Fehr’s neglect helped ruin Hall of Fame
Two business partners are having lunch at a swanky Midtown restaurant when one suddenly erupts, “I think I left the safe open!”
His partner places a reassuring hand on his arm and calmly says, “What are you worried about? We’re both here.”
And that, baseball fans, is why election to the Hall of Fame has become an annual test of individual conscience over legit and illegitimate achievement.
The antagonists in this case remain former MLB commissioner and fast-tracked Hall of Famer Bud Selig, and ex-MLBPA boss Donald Fehr — natural business enemies who, unless they were blind, determined to keep the obvious their little secret.
So the abruptly mass-muscled, sudden-slugger steroid users operated via a see/say-no-evil silence that would allow the Sammy Sosas, Barry Bondses and Mark McGwires to feed MLB’s bottom lines via ticket sales, TV contracts, ad revenues, etc.
While those in charge saw and said nothing about suddenly swollen arms, heads and slugging stats among sudden Supermen, did it ever dawn on them that the cover on this eventually had to be blown to bits?
But they pretended to be the last to see what few could miss. They chose to do lasting, historic harm to basebal
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Fleer Corp. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., 501 F. Supp. 485 (E.D. Pa. 1980)
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TOPPS CHEWING GUM, INC. and Major League Baseball Players' Association.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
*486*487*488*489 Matthew Strickler, Linda S. Martin, Robert J. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.
Sidney Harris, Washington, D. C., for Topps.
Donald Fehr, New York City, for Major League Baseball Players Assoc.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
NEWCOMER, District Judge.
Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., is the sole significant manufacturer and seller of baseball cards in the United States. Fleer Corporation, a competing bubble-gum manufacturer, has sued under the antitrust laws to obtain the right to sell baseball cards in competition with Topps, alleging that Topps and the Major League Baseball Players Association have unlawfully restrained trade in baseball cards. After trial of the action, the Court has determined that Topps and the Players Association have restrained trade in the baseball card market in violation of § 1 and § 2 of the Sherman Act. The Court makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law pursuant to Rule 52(a), F.R.Civ.P.
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