Bowie Kuhn

Bowie Kuhn appears in How we got free agents in baseball as the [[MajorLeagueBaseball|Major League Baseball]] commissioner who rejected [[CurtFlood|Curt Flood]]’s request to be made available to other clubs for the 1970 season. The source says Kuhn agreed Flood was not property in principle but refused to apply that idea to the contract situation created by the [[BaseballReserveClause|reserve clause]].

Kuhn is also the named defendant in [[FloodVKuhn|Flood v. Kuhn]], the [[SupremeCourt|Supreme Court]] case that preserved baseball’s antitrust exception and left the reserve clause formally intact.

Connections

• Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, Arthur Goldberg, Supreme Court, and [[FloodVKuhn|Flood v. Kuhn]] - source case.
• Baseball Reserve Clause, Baseball Antitrust Exemption, and Public Opinion Litigation Strategy - concepts tied to Kuhn’s role.