 When the case reached the Supreme Court, the Boston Red Sox filed an "amicus curiae" brief in support of the Yankees, their bitter rival.Since the Second Circuit, in reinstating Gardella's challenge, had called "Federal Baseball" "an impotent zombi" in light of recent Supreme Court antitrust decisions, baseball did not expect the Court to rule in its favor.A one-paragraph unsigned "per curiam" opinion was followed by a longer dissent by Justice Harold Hitz Burton, joined by Stanley Forman Reed.