Since people are once again acting outraged that an athlete is earning a large paycheck, or choosing his own team to play for, or both, this is a good time to remind everybody that the two men most responsible for the birth of free agency are not honored in their sport’s hall of fame.
Marvin Miller and Curt Flood give a new definition to "long overdue."
No two men changed the landscape of sports more than they did — first in baseball, obviously, where they teamed up to challenge the excessively-restrictive reserve clause and make sure players have the same rights as every other American worker.