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1973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet

1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause

1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause

1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players

1906 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82

1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters

1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause

1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players

1824 Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause



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