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  1. Feb 2026
    1. its presencecouldbethereason that, once the2017-2021MLBCBAexpires, baseball's peacefullabor periodwilllikelyend

      true, now in 2026 hindsight, peace was barely agreed on once again in 2022

    2. (coinciding withbase-ball'sexplosioninpopularityandprofitability)

      Correlates with a theme of my project: the relationship between profits and players salaries

    3. whichangered theownerssomuchthatSeitz wasfiredsoonafter handing downthe ruling.6

      The "independent arbiter" gets fired for making an independent, unbiased decision. How was that even allowed

    4. MLB'santi-trust exemption,isthenextbig hurdlefortheMLBPAto surmount.

      I'm not very familiar with this aspect of labor relations, but I have a feeling a better understanding of it will aid my project even if it doesn't directly correlate to my research question.

    5. signaledtheofficialstartofMLBfree agencywhich

      So many things we take for granted today as young people were not garuenteed in the 20th century, civil rights, free agency... and were the result of and coordinated legal and social effort to stand up to opressing forces

    6. D. ExplainingMI«B'sCollective BargainingAgreementBeforefullygetting intothe weedsoftheexemptionand its basisinAmerican law, itisimportant tofirstdiscuss the backboneoftheplayer-owner-league relationshipin baseball: theCBA.TheCBAis the sourceforall informationon league business,fromthe basic contract structurefornew players who enterthe league to how much meal money players19,1983),https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/19/obituaries/peter-seitz-78-the-arbitrator-in-base-ball-free-agent-case.html[https://perma.cc/XK7U-GNU].64 jd.65Kan. City Royals Baseball Corp. v. MajorLeague Baseball PlayersAss'n.,409F. Supp. 233,261 ( W . D . Mo. 1976),afd409 F.Supp.233 (W.D.Mo.1976).66 Stetson, supra note 63 .67Goldstein, supra note 45.68 M69 MLB, supra note 20, at 12.282 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT[Vol.39.1getper dayonroadtrips.70Thisagreement,negotiated everyfiveyears,istheofficialcompromisebetweenthe league (the teamownersand theOfficeoftheCommissioner)andtheMLBPA(therecognizedunionrep-resentativefor allcurrentMajorLeagueplayers). TheCBAisadual-enforcement mechanism,holdingtheownersto themoney theyhaveagreed topay playersandholdingtheplayers totheon-fieldservice theyhaveagreedtogivetheowners.Itestablishesaminimumsalaryforplay-ers,setsforththe leagueplayoffprocedures,andgoverns freeagency.7

      great overarching explanation of the CBA