How to Use reserve clause in a Sentence

reserve clause

noun

• Miller ended the reserve clause and brought the owners to their knees in winning the right to free agency through the courts.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2021
• The reserve clause ended, free agency began and the players’ union found its voice, setting the table for the high salaries of today.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Flood will refuse to report to the Phillies and will take baseball to court over the reserve clause that binds a player perpetually to one team.
  — Paul Montella, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• But each court decision chipped away at the reserve clause baseball’s owners were clinging to.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• The National League adopted a reserve clause binding a player to his team in December 1879.
  — Ronald Blum, The Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• When the reserve clause was removed from players’ contracts across various sports leagues which gave rise to free agency (nod to Marvin Miller and Curt Flood here), players’ salaries exploded.
  — Patrick Rishe, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• The upstart league resulted from a bitter and unsuccessful struggle against professional baseball’s reserve clause, which would bind a player to a team for life.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Kurt Flood refused to be traded to another team and challenged Major League Baseball's entrenched reserve clause in the courts, paving the way for free-agency and access to big money that successful pro athletes enjoy today.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• At the time, the reserve clause, a part of every contract that bound players nearly irrevocably to their teams, was still in effect; free agency, which multiplied the earning power of players by many orders of magnitude, was still in the future.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 10 July 2019
• So after playing out the 1976 season, Mr. Campbell became one of baseball’s first group of free agents, a year after a federal judge’s ruling dismantled baseball’s reserve clause, which tied a player to a team in perpetuity.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• Baseball also was operating under the reserve clause, which bound a player to his current team indefinitely.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• When a federal court ordered a jury trial to investigate baseball’s labor practices, the owners quickly realized the reserve clause likely would be overturned, potentially costing them millions in salary.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024