Free Agency has been a part of baseball for nearly half a century. And the flurry of free agent signings helps make the off season hot stove talk burn.
But the very fabric of baseball and how rosters are constructed would have been very different if not for the rulings of arbitrator Peter Seitz.
He helped strike down The Reserve Clause that bound players to teams indefinitely and on this day in 1975 began the free agency era.

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