“grave reservations as to the correctness of Toolson,” the Chief Justice stated that “[cjourts are not the forum in which this tangled web ought to be unsnarled.” Id. at 285-86, 92 S.Ct. 2099 (Burger, C.J., concurring). Justice William O. Douglas, joined by Justice William J. Brennan, dissented and disagreed with the Chief Justice’s assessment of the proper forum for change, stating that “[Federal Baseball ] is a derelict in the stream of law that we, its creator, should remove.” Id. at 286, 92 S.Ct. 2099 (Douglas, J., dissenting). While engagingly written, the Flood opinion is not clear about the extent of the conduct that is exempt from antitrust laws. The opinion begins by identifying the issue as whether “professional baseball’s reserve sy 1101, 1103 (9th Cir.1974) (per curiam) (<HOLDING>); McCoy v. Major League Baseball, 911 F.Supp.
holding that because no class was certified at the time the individual claims were dismissed the class action was properly dismissed holding that there must be a causal connection between the alleged antitrust violation and the antitrust injury for there to be antitrust standing holding that an antitrust injury is a necessary element of a  2 claim holding that a plaintiff must show antitrust injury in order to bring an antitrust lawsuit holding antitrust claim properly dismissed citing flood