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Dave McNally is a happy man, but on December 4, 1974, he was not happy. On that day, McNally, Rich Coggins and Ed Kirkpatrick were traded from the Orioles to the Montreal Expos, for Mike Torrez and Ken Singleton. McNally did not want to play in Montreal. He decided to sue major league baseball...
...time, it was something that had to be done," he says. "Leaving Baltimore for Montreal would not have been pleasant. But, I don't think anyone could have anticipated what has followed...
McNally, along with fellow plaintiff Andy Messersmith and Curt Flood, who lost a similar case five years earlier, freed major leaguers from the shackles of the reserve clause. A federal court ruled that he did not have to report to the Montreal Expos if he did not want...