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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Insurance on player contracts

By Tangotiger, 03:42 PM

I remember after the last labor agreement, or after 9/11, they were saying that no company was going to insure contracts for more than three years, and you were going to get all these short-term deals.  Of course, nothing of the sort happened.  Now, I’ve got actual details as to how the insuring of contracts works.  This is for the NHL, but I imagine that MLB and the other sports are similar if not identical:

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Insurance on player contracts