Word: radovich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court ruled 6-3 that professional football, a brother to pro baseball, falls under the antitrust laws. The man who moved the court was a big (255 lbs.), broad former Detroit Lions guard named Bill Radovich, who had charged that pro footballers had illegally conspired to bar him from the game by means of the reserve clause. The court did not rule on the details of Radovich's complaint. Instead of throwing his appeal out of court, as it did in the past baseball cases, it ordered a lower court to hold trial on his charges. This opened...
...male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years in the game. But I don't like to have a man tell me that I could play for one club and nobody else...