A History of Baseball Contracts

[YOSSARIAN]

I studied labor history in college. This is one the best documentaries ive ever seen. This is a perfect example about the effectiveness of labor organizing. The capital owners will do anything to stop it because it works!!! Solidarity forever😀

[owen______]

This might be the magnum opus of Baseball's Not Dead. The history of players' rights was covered in detail while being very digestable, and the tone created by the music choices and editing was poignant and emotion filled.

[warlordofbritannia]

I could listen Marvin Miller talk for hours, the man had such a unique mastery of communication. It’s no wonder how the players listened and learned from him.

[logani]

The best in the game just educates us all on labor strife. Amazing

[harrisonlinden]

Legitimately one of the best baseball videos I’ve ever seen. We spend so much time on stats, technique, and players but this is a really important part of the sport’s history.

[ThomasBaxter]

Really enjoying this!

Oddly enough, this weekend I was reminiscing about what an absolute badass Curt Flood was for taking on the reserve clause the way he did. Looking forward to that part of the tale.

Great job so far and I really appreciate the time and effort that went into this, especially the credits to the sources for the clips.

[DanDanThePhillie]

This kind of video is why you’re in the upper echelon on baseball content creators, it was very well researched, well spoken, while also explaining complicated concepts and topics in a way that can be easily understood by all baseball fans. Great job dude 👏

[Thepotatocrusader]

This video is truly incredible, documentary tier video for free on YouTube. I can only imagine the work it took to put this together but you should be extremely proud. One of the best videos I've seen on here

[CrashPK]

I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into a 2+ hour video - a WELL-DONE video. You're a beast, man. Thank you for a CLASSIC.

[MarlinWilliams-tsul]

Now we have a Detroit Tiger shortstop with a $300 million contract batting .143.

[EDF]

Uploaded 15 minutes ago, nearly 2 hours long, I have to leave for work in 40 minutes.... Yeah I got time.

[BaseballHistorian]

Marvin Miller coming back to life just to like this video

[darthredraider]

This this should an eye opener to what the average worker experiences. How many of you have heard "Don't discuss your pay with your coworkers" at your job? Including the general public being against any pay raise "They don't deserve it". That's a whole other rabbit hole.

Great video, keep doing what you're doing ⚾

[wtkprol]

Couldn’t help but shed a tear when Bouton came out on the field for Old Timer Day. You set that up well with the letter his son wrote. Still watching but I can tell it’s going to be a great video. Well done!

[PpP-drod]

God I love this channel. This is Jon Bois level content, and it deserves Jon Bois level views.

[Mike]

This video is superlative. I really enjoy your videos but the research and footage in this one are next-level

[TheManWithThePlan]

Time to submit this to Sundance, hell yeah I'm only at the intro and I'm fuckin pumped to watch

EDIT: Holy shit this is even better than I was initially prepared for. One of the best YouTube videos I've watched in YEARS. Keep up the great work, BND. This platform needs creators like you more than ever.

[SomeGuyNamedMack]

As a Labour Studies graduate, this tickles the right part of my brain. Thank you so much!

[leohmusic]

Man that jim bouton story is somethin else, cant believe theres another 1:40 left

[ritchie]

As a father and aspiring author and lifelong baseball fan, the ending of the first sixteen minutes has me in tears every time i watch it. When bartolo Colon retired i became older than every active majorleaguer, though pujols and i were the same age heading into his last season. this made his retirement tributes feel like a changing of an era for me. He and Ichiro were nl/al roy in 2001 so i think of ichiro, pujols and along with colon as being the same baseball age.
. Thankfully i can still see guys in commercials portraying the same versions of themselves they portrayed when i was younger. Ken Griffey Jr's smile and manner of speech still reminds me of middle school. I remember thinking his Upper Deck Rookie card was way overvalued for what he had done up until then. He was barely a sprout! How could his rookie card be the most valuable object my 12 year old self had ever held? Inside of a case, in a card shop. Let's just say i'm sentimental and baseball has been so entwined with my whole life, it turns every baseball reference pageof a player who played since 1985, into a personal memory book if i look hard enough. My baseball sentience first came into being during the royals world series run. I even have memories of the nlcs that year. I remember watching the games with my dad and trying not to be too annoying with my many questions (verbosity is a character trait i developed around that age as well) so that's why ANY attempt to discuss ANYTHING related to baseball turns me into a rambling sentimental fool.
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