Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), ca. 1998

(L to R) Senators Strom Thurmond, Orrin Hatch, and Patrick Leahy, along with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, cosponsored the Curt Flood Act that limited professional baseball’s antitrust exemption.
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