Wild MLB week sees lockout end, but League's antitrust exemption faces scrutiny

Former Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders is among United States Senators still calling for an end to the MLB's controversial and long-held antitrust exemption. Despite the MLB and the Players' Union's just-brokered tentative agreement, that will see the end of what looked an inevitable- at least partial- 2022 season lockout.

The exemption, applied courtesy of a 1922 Supreme Court decision in Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League, has allowed the MLB to act as a monopoly without breaching federal antitrust legislation. Whilst it has been somewhat watered down over the years, the ruling remains continuous among those believing it gives the MLB an unfair bargaining position both in past disputes and this current work stoppage.