Sometimes Baptists emerge from the grassroots, as in the case of literal Baptists who supported Prohibition and Blue Laws. Sometimes the Baptists are watered by bootleggers, who provide generous donations to such groups.

The state Supreme Court agreed that the Blue Laws were already filled with so many exceptions that there was no basis in preventing Kroger from opening on Sundays," explains Davis.

From the opening of the 1929 season Passon used the field as a location from which to challenge the Blue Laws, scheduling his (white) Passon Athletic Club for Sunday games.

Roosevelt embodied the hypocrisy of his fellow social elite, taking full advantage of loopholes in the blue laws that allowed alcohol to flow legally in private clubs and hotel restaurants, second homes for the male gentry.

Laband & Deborah Hendry Heinbuch, Blue laws: the history, economics, and politics of Sunday-closing laws 29 (1987).

Hammond Trumbull's Blue Laws, True and False, Leigh Hunt's The Town and Timbs's Curiosities of London, among others.

Rohdieck is proud of his community's success and ability to compete with destinations like Las Vegas, especially when the blue laws are factored into the equation.

He makes passing reference to Louisville's blue laws, which prevented Sunday games, but he provides no further discussion of this important topic in baseball history.

The research by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher, together with a researcher from De-Paul University, also reveals that when Sunday blue laws are repealed, women who choose secular activities, such as shopping, are not happier.

The alternative is to "re-regulate, collectively, the use of our time." Shulevitz isn't calling for the return of blue laws. Rather, she wants labor law with teeth.

She parses Max Weber along with the Talmud, Saint Paul along with George Eliot, blue laws along with the Babylonian exile.