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Clyde Sukeforth Chapter Meeting with Robert Elias!

Danny Gardella: Baseball's Neglected Trailblazer for Today's Millionaire Athletes While baseball’s postwar years are often called the “Golden Age” of the sport, it was also an era when the reserve clause bound players to their teams and suppressed their rights and wages. Into these conditions came Danny Gardella, who openly resisted this bondage and launched the legal fight against the reserve clause that set the stage for Curt Flood and Marvin Miller’s free agency challenge two decades later. This presentation will tell the story of the little-known yet remarkable ballplayer who stood up to Major League Baseball and laid the legal foundation for free agency. It will recount Gardella’s humble beginnings, his struggle to establish himself as a professional baseball player, his entertaining antics on and off the field, and his jump from Organized Baseball to the Mexican League that was the spark not only for challenging the reserve clause, but for creating America’s most powerful labor union, the MLB Player’s Association. Gardella was an unlikely working-class hero: a high-school dropout who was nevertheless a Renaissance man, who played ball professionally in four countries, who wrote poetry, who quoted Shakespeare, Freud, and Poe, who was an acrobat and Golden Gloves boxer, who was an opera, vaudeville, and Broadway singer, and who was a weight-training and nutrition pioneer who may have invented the smoothie. Gardella’s life, full of twists and turns, tells the hidden story of the struggle against the reserve clause, and provides a new perspective on America’s Golden Age of Baseball and the origins of free agency. Rob Elias is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, University of San Francisco. He’s taught previously at Tufts, McGill, Penn State, University of Maryland, and UC, Berkeley. His baseball books include Baseball and the American Dream, Major League Rebels, The Empire Strikes Out, The Deadly Tools of Ignorance, Baseball Rebels, and his recently published Dangerous Danny Gardella.