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How has free agency in sports affected small market teams Should Major League Baseball develop a salary-cap system? No major league baseball should develop a salary-cap system because it can help them save there money.if they dont there will not be any excitement in there team.For example,the new york yankees have alot of exiting players on there team.they can't lose none of them just to have a right amount of money for the salary cap.Player contracts will be, adding excitement to the off season. Steinbrenner may have to cut Derek Jeter loose to create cap room. but the yankees wont do that because it is there star player.

The history rat:curt flood and free agency-The end of the reverse clause http://historyrat.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/curt-flood-and-free-agency-the-end-of-the-reserve-clause/ Flood became one of the pivotal figures in the sport's labor history when he refused to accept a trade following the 1969 season, Curt Flood began to look for his options.Curt flood thought he was free to do wherever he could do to make a right trade. the Reserve Clause forbid it. On October 7, 1969, the Cardinals traded Flood, [|Tim McCarver], [|Byron Browne] , and [|Joe Hoerner] to the [|Philadelphia Phillies] for [|Dick Allen] , [|Cookie Rojas] , and [|Jerry Johnson]. Flood refused to report to the moribund Phillies, citing the team's poor record The reserve clause, standard in sports contracts, stated upon the expiration of a contract the player had two choices: 1. Negotiate a contract for the same team 2. Ask to be released or traded

[|Marvin Miller And Free Agency: The pivotal year 1969]

"On December 23rd, 1975, Peter Seitz, the neutral arbitrator,gave The Major League Baseball players, both then and now, the greatest Christmas present they would ever receive. He ruled that clause 10a of a player’s contract, reserving an unsigned player to his current team, was only valid for one year. "

[|Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part I]

On February 3, 1969,125 players met in New York to threat to strike if the matter of their contract wasn’t resolved. This was the first show of solid way amongst players – their first real threat to strike. The next morning, Bowie Kuhn was appointed commissioner of baseball. Under tremendous public pressure.

In conclusion free agency in baseball should not be allowed because the players want to stay on the team that they like or been on.If they don't want to then they can get a trade to a team they want to go to or a team the manager wants them to go to so that they can have a better player.