To require a professional baseball club to compensate its home community if such club relocates its home field more than 25 miles from its previous location.
The Moneyball Act would require Major League Baseball teams that move their home stadium more than 25 miles away to compensate their former host community. Affected teams would owe the state, local, and tribal governments an amount equal to all the tax revenue those governments collected from the team during the ten years before relocation. If a team fails to pay this compensation or tries to disband to avoid paying it, the bill would eliminate baseball's special antitrust exemption, exposing the entire sport to federal antitrust laws. The bill reflects Congress's view that baseball's unique legal exemption is justified only because teams are deeply connected to their communities, and relocating breaks that bond. The legislation includes a provision making individual team officers personally liable for compensation payments if the team itself refuses to pay.
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