Sports in Government Documents: 1950s-1970s

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• Amateur sports, Hearings before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, 1973. Print copy available at MU.

• Lake Placid, N.Y. as site of 1980 winter Olympics, Hearing before Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements, U.S. House of Representatives, 1974.

• Labor relations in professional sports, hearings before Special Subcommittee on Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, 1972.  Print copy available at MU.

• Authorizing the merger of two or more professional basketball leagues, and for other purposes, Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, 1972.

• Federal sports act of 1972, hearings before the Commitee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, 1972. Print copy available at MU.  

• Sports Arbitration Board report, hearing before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, 1968. Print copy available at MU.

• Professional sports act of 1965, Report of the Judciary Committee, U.S. Senate, 1965.

• Professional sports antitrust bill, hearing before the Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, 1965.

• Telecasting of professional sports contests, report from the Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, August 28, 1961.

• Telecasting of professional sports contests, report from the Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, September 20, 1961.

• Organized professional team sports, hearings before subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly, U.S. Senate, 1958.

• Professional sports antitrust act of 1960, report from the Judiciary Committee, June 20, 1960.

• Organized professional team sports,  Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, 1960.

• Joint resolution to authorize designation of Oct. 19, 1957 as National Olympic Day, Public Law 85-216, 1957.

• Broadcasting and telecasting baseball games, hearing before the Commitee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U. S. Senate, 1953.

• Broadcasting and televising baseball games, hearing before the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, U.S. Senate, 1953.

• Organized professional team sports, hearings before antitrust subcommittee, Committee on Judiciary, U.S. Houseof Representatives, 1957. 

             Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

• Study of Monopoly Power. Part 6: Organized Baseball, hearing before the Judiciary Commitee, U.S. House of Representatives, 1951.

• Impact of anti-trust laws on organized baseball, report from the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 1952.

• Fundamentals of safety in Army sports and recreation, Deparatment of the Army, 1968.

• National sports and physical fitness test, President's Council on Physical Fitness, 1966.

• Applicability of antitrust laws to organized professional team sports, report from the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 1958.

• Radiotelemetric research in sports medicine, USSR, 68-4044, Joint Publications Research Service.1967. Ask Government Documents Librarian for assistance.

• Tax shelters, professional sports franchises,  Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, U.S. House of Representatives, 1975.  (Y 4.W 36:T 19/101) Print copy available at MU.

• Sponsor of contests and sporting events, Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, 1971. Print copy available at MU.

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