MLB has created one of the most powerful monopolies in American business history. It has abused its unregulated power many times throughout its existence and it has come into conflict with American federal laws that would normally prohibit such policies. Both its "gentlemen's agreement" that prohibited minorities (including Commissioner Ford Frick's 1952 ban on women players) from playing ball and "reserve clause" were in direct violation of Civil Rights Act of 1866, Amendment 13, and Amendment 14. The commissioner holds extraordinary powers which have proven to not be in the best interests of baseball such as the inconsistency to ban people from MLB even if those player did not commit any wrongdoing. MLB's monopoly must be held accountable in the eyes of the American law system.



