Curtis C. Flood v. Bowie K. Kuhn

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff and his able counsel have undertaken a comprehensive attack on professional baseball’s “reserve system,” which, pursuant to nationwide agreements among clubs, effectively restricts a baseball player, if he desires to play professional baseball at all, to contract negotiations with that club in organized baseball which first employs or “reserves” him or with that club’s assignee club, and any subsequent assignee clubs, to which in the parlance of the baseball business he has been “sold” or “traded.” After an extensive trial below the complaint was dismissed…