Major League Baseball collusion

[3] Before the 1966 season, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale decided to jointly hold out during salary negotiations with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

[4] In 1968, new union leader Marvin Miller negotiated baseball's first Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with team owners.

Ueberroth called the owners "damned dumb" for being willing to lose millions of dollars in order to win a World Series.

By December, several agents thought something was amiss, and complained to Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) president Donald Fehr.

Star players that ended up back with their old teams included Jack Morris (Detroit Tigers), Tim Raines (Montreal Expos), Ron Guidry (New York Yankees), Rich Gedman (Red Sox), Bob Boone (California Angels), and Doyle Alexander (Atlanta Braves).

[5] In September 1987, the Collusion I case came before arbitrator Thomas T. Roberts, who ruled that the owners had violated the CBA by conspiring to restrict player movement.

"New look" free agents included Ron Guidry, Bob Boone, Doyle Alexander, Willie Randolph, Brian Downing and Rich Gedman.

"New look" free agents from this settlement were Jack Morris, Gary Gaetti, Larry Andersen, Brett Butler and Dave Henderson.

[10] At that time, then-commissioner Fay Vincent told the owners:[11] The single biggest reality you guys have to face up to is collusion.

[13] In 2005, Vincent claimed that the owners used the Major's two rounds of expansion in the 1990s (which produced the Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays) in part to pay the damages from the collusion settlement.

As part of the 2006 CBA, owners agreed to pay the players $12 million from "luxury tax" revenue sharing funds.

[16] In October 2008, the MLB Players' Association indicated that it would file a collusion grievance against the owners claiming that they conspired illegally to keep Barry Bonds from receiving a 2008 contract.