Happy Birthday, John Montgomery Ward

March 3, 2008

Born this day in 1860, Ward formed The Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, the first players union, in 1885 and sought to fight the reserve clause that bound a player to his team in perpetuity.
If some of today’s modern athletes don’t know about the contributions of Jackie Robinson (and when I say “some players” I mean Vince Coleman), it’s a virtual lock that they’ve never heard of Ward

The Amazon Report:

Baseball: How to Become a Player

A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward (Read an excerpt here.)

Baseball’s Radical for All Seasons

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