Bowie Kuhn, while a lawyer at the firm now known as Willkie Farr & Gallagher, had the National League as a client for nearly 20 years before taking a pay cut to become commissioner in 1969. Kuhn successfully pushed to get Negro League players into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the winning party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Flood v. Kuhn, in which the justices found that baseball and its reserve clause were exempt from federal antitrust laws. Also on his watch, expansion franchises in Kansas City, Montreal, San Diego and Seattle were set up; the designated hitter rule was adopted; and Major League Baseball’s attendance and TV revenue exploded.