U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who earned the title of "savior of baseball" in 1995 as the judge who ended a lengthy players’ strike, will revisit the legal issues surrounding the sport next month.
Sotomayor is set to preside over a re-enactment on May 22 of Flood v. Kuhn, the 1972 case in which the court upheld Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption as an "established aberration" that needed to be upheld out of respect for precedent. The case was brought by St. Louis Cardinals player Curt Flood, who challenged rules that kept him from being a "free agent" in making decisions about his career.
