Book contents
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
7 - American Amateur Players Arise
You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Amateurism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
- For Labor To Build Upon
- For Labor to Build Upon
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An Overview
- 3 Unions, Employment Conditions, and American Exceptionalism
- 4 The Historical Backdrop
- 5 The Modern Labor Framework
- 6 The Gig Economy and All That
- 7 American Amateur Players Arise
- 8 Union Decline
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The twentieth century witnessed the development of professional players’ unions or associations in virtually all of the major league sports,3 a development occurring well after the organization of professional sports. The process started with baseball4 and extended to other sports as well.5 Notwithstanding the absence of judge-made antitrust law,6 baseball was the first sport to develop institutionalized protection for its players due to a muscular union under the effective leadership of Marvin Miller from the 1960s onward.7 The other major sports like football,8 basketball,9 boxing, and hockey eventually followed suit.10
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- For Labor To Build UponWars, Depression and Pandemic, pp. 121 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022