 Gardella initially sought $300,000, settling for less on his lawyers' advice he would lose on appeal to the Supreme Court.In 1951, Brooklyn congressman Emanuel Celler, an advocate for strong antitrust enforcement, had chaired a special Judiciary Committee subcommittee on monopoly power, which had looked into baseball, among other things.It had been strongly critical, but took no action because of the pending court cases from other Mexican League players.