KANSAS CITY ROYALS BASEBALL v. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASS'N

No. 76-1115.

532 F.2d 615 (1976)

KANSAS CITY ROYALS BASEBALL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Golden West Baseball Company, et al. (the other 22 Major League Baseball Clubs), Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION, Defendant, Counter-Claim Plaintiff-Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry P. Thomson, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., made argument for appellants. Appendix and appellants' brief were filed by Harry P. Thomson, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., James P. Garner, Cleveland, Ohio, Louis L. Hoynes, Jr., New York City, and Walter J. Kennedy, Kansas City, Mo.

Richard M. Moss, New York City, made argument for defendant. Brief for defendant was filed by Richard M. Moss, New York City, and William A. Jolley and Donald M. Fehr, Gant, Jolley, Moran, Walsh, Hager & Gordon, Kansas City, Mo.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The owners of the twenty-four Major League Baseball Clubs seek reversal of a judgment of the District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The court refused to set aside and ordered enforced an arbitration panel's award rendered in favor of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The arbitration panel was established pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between the Club Owners and the Players Association. The award relieved...

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