Preference for a National Pastime: An Examination of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption, Its Destruction of Healthy Competition, and the Inherent Need for a Competitive Market Over the past century, baseball has become affectionately known as the "National Pastime" in the United States. As this title connotes, baseball is more than just a sport or a form of entertainment. It is a phenomenon that grasps a nation's heart and unites its citizens under a common threshold. Thus, …showed first 75 words of 2161 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2161 total…to place Major League Baseball's focus back in the right direction, on the well being of its consumers and players. The only way to create a competitive market is by overruling baseball's current antitrust exemption. It is only through this groundbreaking process that Major League Baseball will be able to function in concordance with the betterment of society as a whole. Only then will Major League Baseball truly fulfill its responsibility as America's "National Pastime."