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In footnote 6 to Grim's opinion, he discussed the possible methods of preserving the league's competitive balance by limiting competition for players, such as a draft and/or salary cap. While he reserved judgement on whether it might be acceptable in football, given the league's less extensive history than MLB, and that it had only recently emerged victorious from its struggle with the AAFC that would later be at issue in Radovich, he unequivocally believed baseball should strongly consider such measures:(324n6)
At the time, the Yankees had appeared in 16 of the last 30 World Series and won 14 of them, the bulk in two runs: four straight championships in the late 1930s and a run of five, previously unequaled in any other major American team professional sport, that had just ended a month before Grim's decision.[67]The professional baseball team which has the only American League franchise in the New York area, the New York Yankees, has dominated professional baseball so much in the last thirty years that most of the other teams no longer have any real hope of winning a championship. This is harmful to professional baseball generally. Certainly it is not merely a coincidence that the professional baseball team which draws from a population area twice as large as its nearest competitor wins almost all the championships.
Congress eventually passed the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, allowing not just football but all televised professional team sports to pool their broadcast rights in a manner Grim had found unlawful.[68]
