Reserve Rule
baseball
Also known as: Reserve Clause
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history of baseball
- In baseball: Rise of the players
…is primarily based on the Reserve Rule, or Reserve Clause, an agreement among major league teams, dating from 1879, whereby the rights of each team to the services of its players are observed by other teams; i.e., a team could designate a certain number of players who were not to…
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role of Flood
- In Curt Flood
…Players Association (MLBPA), challenged the reserve clause, which gave St. Louis the right to trade him without his permission, as violating federal antitrust laws. (Earlier attempts to overthrow the reserve clause had resulted in U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1922 and 1953 that held the Sherman Antitrust Act law did…
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