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Definition of Reserve clause
1. Noun. A clause that used to be part of the contract with a professional athlete extending the contract for a year beyond its expiration. "The reserve clause was used to bind players to a particular ball club"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reserve Clause
Literary usage of Reserve clause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton (1910)
"Players who were in demand still insisted upon non-reserve contracts and many
received contracts with the reserve clause stricken out. ..."
2. Annotated Cases, American and English: Containing the Important Cases by Harry Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney (1917)
"In that case it appeared that the defendant had entered into a contract with the
Philadelphia club, had disregarded the reserve clause in that contract and ..."
3. Report of the Committee on Water Powers, Forestry, and Drainage of the by Wisconsin, Legislature (1911)
"In all the eases where the question at issue was the power, under the reserve
clause, to repeal corporate charters, it has been held that this power could ..."
4. The Law and the Practice of Municipal Home Rule by Howard Lee McBain (1916)
"Under this reserve clause the states adopt constitutions ; but even if these
constitutions do — as they frequently appear to do — expressly confer certain ..."
5. Baseball Notes for Coaches and Players by Elmer Berry (1916)
"reserve clause in player's contract. Blue Book, 1914, p. 75, Art. VII, Sec. 1.
... Constitutionality of reserve clause much questioned. ..."
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