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Sens. Mike Lee and Cory Booker urged the Supreme Court to overturn MLB's antitrust exemption.

The senators argue in a court brief that baseball must be held to the same laws as other pro sports.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1922 that pro baseball games are not interstate commerce.

Two U.S. senators, including one from Utah, are taking another swing at ending Major League Baseball’s century-old exemption from antitrust laws.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn a longstanding precedent that has shielded professional baseball from the nation’s antitrust laws.

Lee in a statement said baseball for too long has enjoyed an exemption from the competition laws that apply to every other professio

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