If Milwaukee's Elmer W. Roller, 64, had it to do all over again, he might decide to be a baseball umpire instead of a circuit court judge. Umpires, at least, don't get their judgments reversed.
Last April, after digesting 7,000 pages of testimony and cogitating for 35 straight hours, Judge Roller ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust law by moving the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta, thereby "substantially restraining" Wisconsin's trade and commerce. He fined the ten-team league $55,000 and court costs, ordered it either to 1) bring the Braves back, or 2) give Milwaukee a...
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