MLB: 47 years of the first free agent in GL history, who was he?

MLB 47 years of the first free agent in GL

It was a day like today but 47 years ago, New Years Eve 1974, that baseball changed forever. That was the day that Jim “Catfish” Hunter left the Oakland Athletics after what a referee named Peter Seitz ruled that the A’s had violated Hunter’s contract by not paying him the money he was owed. At … Read more