The Rise and Fall of the Reserve Clause

Douglas Rushkoff: Flood Vikunas case was part of what kicked off a revolution in how players viewed their own contracts. He says Marvin Miller served as the first president of the Major League Baseball Players Association.rushkoff: MLBPA is, or at least probably has been, the most powerful of any of the players' unions in American professional sports.Rushkoff: Sports is such an interesting microcosm of labor and the labor movement to me in large part because it's the one field where everyone admits that players are underpaid relative to their actual value.