Sport and the law : historical and cultural intersections /

"Sport and the Law examines not only how athletes looked to the nation's judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases transformed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Haywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed an...

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Other Authors / Creators:Regalado, Samuel O., editor.
Fields, Sarah K., editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, 2014.
Series:Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
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Summary:"Sport and the Law examines not only how athletes looked to the nation's judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases transformed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Haywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball's antitrust status; the Danny Gardella lower level 1948 case regarding free agency and baseball; Muhammad Ali's celebrated stance against the US draft; Renée Richards's 1976 lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association and its due process ramifications; and human rights violations in international law with respect to the increased recruitment of underage Latin baseball players in the Caribbean region. Sport and the Law links these cases to other cases and topics, giving the reader the opportunity to see the threads weaving law and sport together n American society"--Unedited summary from book cover.
This new collection examines not only how athletes looked to the nation's judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases trans¬formed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Heywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball's antitrust status; the Danny Gardella lower level 1948 case regarding free agency and baseball; Muhammad Ali's celebrated stance against the U.S. draft; Renée Richards's 1976 lawsuit against the U.S. Tennis Association and its due process ramifications; and human rights violations in international law with respect to the increased recruitment of underage Latin baseball players in the Caribbean region are a few examples of the vast array of stories included. Sport and the Law links these cases to other cases and topics, giving the reader the opportunity to see the threads weaving law and sport together in American society.
Item Description:Print version record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781610755498
1610755499
Author Notes:Samuel O. Rregalado is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus and the author or editor of four books, including Baseball in Nikkei America: From the Meiji to the Majors .

Sarah K. Fields is associate professor of communication at University of Colorado Denver and the author of Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America .