1. He sued baseball for changes in the reserve clause that restricted player movement and was for ever blackballed. 2. And earlier than that, before the reserve clause, players were moving from town to town and playing for the highest bidder. 3. A generation earlier, when baseball was armed with a reserve clause that shackled players to franchises, double-digit careers with the same club were common. 4. Curt Flood challenges the reserve clause. 5. For a long time, Finley was able to keep player salaries artificially low, under the old reserve clause. 6. He challenged the reserve clause, which reserved a player exclusively to the team owning his contract. 7. In the Piazza case, Pavoda said the exemption applies to the now-defunct reserve clause. 8. In the good old days, superior teams kept their edge because of the reserve clause that bound a player to his club until his legs fell off. 9. It has nothing to do with salary caps or free agency or reserve clauses. 10. Not agreeing to a salary cap is akin to clinging to the reserve clause? |