Curt Flood
Despite legal and judicial criticism and embarrassment, baseball's antitrust exemption remains in effect. Players in the major leagues won free agency with the Seitz decision in 1975, and the 1998 Curt Flood Act gave major league players, but not others involved in baseball, rights under the antitrust laws. But for players in the minor leagues, like Toolson, the reserve system persists, and they are still bound to the organization that initially signed them.