Holding that selling and buying of livestock at stockyard were transactions in interstate commerce because "[s]uch transactions can not be separated from the [interstate] movement to which they contribute and necessarily take on its character"
259 U.S. 200 (1922) Cited 136 times 9 Legal Analyses
Holding that the business of providing public baseball games for profit between clubs of professional baseball players was not within the scope of federal antitrust laws
In Martin v. National League Baseball Club, 174 F.2d 917, 918 (2d Cir. 1949), the Second Circuit, after having held baseball subject to the antitrust laws (after Federal Baseball, but prior to Toolson), nevertheless refused to issue a preliminary injunction on behalf of a player excluded from professional baseball because the question of the legality of the reserve system "may involve consideration, among other things, of the needs and conduct of the business as a whole."