Curt flood Changing Baseball Forever
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Curt Flood was a star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals who refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969, instead filing a lawsuit against Major League Baseball alleging that the reserve clause in player contracts violated antitrust law. While the Supreme Court ultimately ruled against Flood, his challenge helped pave the way for free agency in baseball by establishing the "Curt Flood Rule" allowing players with over 10 years in the MLB to veto trades. After his playing career, Flood remained an advocate for players' rights and against the reserve clause until his death in 1997.
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Oddly enough, the language of the reserve clause was ambiguous. It merely said that if you played for a team, you must play for that team the next season as well. Two players before Flood had challenged the reserve clause only to run up against baseball's exemption from antitrust laws, first established in 1921 in a decision by Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The reserve clause, the antitrust exemption, and the legal decisions that had accumulated around it all had an aura of irrationality about them. It was as if, as Miller once put it, "the courts were saying 'Yes, you're an American and have the right to seek employment anywhere you like, but this right does not apply to baseball players."
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