FLOOD v. KUHN

No. 608, Docket 35424.

443 F.2d 264 (1971)

Curtis C. FLOOD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bowie K. KUHN et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Goldberg, Jay H. Topkis, Max Gitter, William D. Iverson, Paul, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul A. Porter, Victor H. Kramer, Douglas G. Robinson, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., George S. Leisure, Jr., John E. Tobin, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for defendant-appellee Kuhn.

Louis L. Hoynes, Jr., Louis F. Carroll, Mark F. Hughes, Barry Rona, Robert J. Kheel, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, Alexander H. Hadden, James P. Garner, G. Warren Daane, Sargent Karch, Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, for all defendants-appellees except Kuhn.

Before WATERMAN, MOORE and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


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...

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