{"id":484730,"date":"2025-12-22T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=484730"},"modified":"2025-12-23T02:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:21:03","slug":"its-been-50-years-since-a-lawyers-decision-unlocked-free-agency-in-mlb-and-changed-sports-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=484730","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been 50 years since a lawyer&#8217;s decision unlocked free agency in MLB and changed sports forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1pt9xxg\/its_been_50_years_since_a_lawyers_decision\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/WoA4jMzi0gNHEZzU3of9c2LBiqj6YDdXeM9Cnk31XTI.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=61fe98bc20ba779073df61c6803ebefb9c2176d0\" alt=\"It&#039;s been 50 years since a lawyer&#039;s decision unlocked free agency in MLB and changed sports forever\" title=\"It&#039;s been 50 years since a lawyer&#039;s decision unlocked free agency in MLB and changed sports forever\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Oldtimer_2\"> \/u\/Oldtimer_2 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/free-agency-50th-anniversary-849bbad930f23b37bb739d7c367c41c0\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1pt9xxg\/its_been_50_years_since_a_lawyers_decision\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/Oldtimer_2 [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484733,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484730\/revisions\/484733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}