Player Mobility in Professional Sports: From the Reserve System to Free Agency
By Jonathan B. Goldberg, February 8, 2012
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This article discusses case law that crafted an exemption to federal antitrust law and triggered the rise of sports unionization. The catalyst for the reserve system’s collapse was the integration of the arbitration clause planted by a players’ association into a Collective Bargaining Agreement. The article focuses on the fall of the reserve system and the rise of free agency, a system designed to facilitate contract offers to players from competing teams.
