Re: monopoly definition

["Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>]

A. Joseph Ross writes:
> At the time, WNAC radio and TV were carrying Braves games.  I don't know
how many
> games they broadcast, but they did at least some.  I suppose they still
could have shown
> Braves games from Milwaukee, but I don't know why the Boston audience
would be
> interested.

In 1952, was our country as litiguous as it is now? No? The way I understood
it, everyone in Boston wasn't too worried about the Braves leaving, they
were confident another NL team would come here shortly. And I also believe
that, at the time, WNAC (1260) was airing some games for both the Sox and
Braves...the Braves ditching town probably didn't matter too much to them,
as they could just add more Sox games?

> Which reminds me, I seem to remember something about a lawsuit when the
Braves moved
> from Milwaukee to Atlanta.  A judge in Wisconsin issued an injunction
ordering them to play
> in Milwaukee, but since they were by then in Atlanta, it couldn't be
enforced.  I think they
> may also have arranged to have a Georgia judge order them to play in
Atlanta, just for good
> measure.  There may have been some appellate proceedings in Wisconsin, but
I don't know
> what they were.

I believe there was also a lawsuit when the Seattle Pilots bailed for
Milwaukee.