Aurelius

That would be the same time as conception. For me, it was 1969. Brooks, Boog, Frank, the best defensive team in MLB, the best pitching in MLB. As someone else put it, need I say more?

Wow, I'm aware of when FA started in MLB. Maybe you missed the part of my post where I said it's not hindsight and why.

Yeah that was a major major mistake. According to reports at the time, Reggie was prepared to sign 4 years for $1 million. That was a bargain and the Os probably would have won the AL East those 4 years. And it's not hindsight, Hank Peters should have KNOWN that was a bargain price because Catfish Hunter received much more than that on the open market a year or two earlier. Maybe ownership wouldn't allow it, who knows. Peters called Reggie's proposal "mind-boggling". What a fool. It still irks me to this day.