Why we ranked him here: Messersmith was a very good major league pitcher — 130-99 with a 2.86 earned run average and 27 shutouts in 12 seasons. But he was an even more important one, which we’ll get ...

Andy Messersmith wrestled in college, earning All-American honors at Adams State in 2002-03. He’s been a head wrestling coach and enjoyed success at North Sanpete and Juab. He's also been an assistant ...

It was 33 years ago today. No, that's not a lost outtake from The Beatles. That's the day that baseball salaries starting escalating beyond our wildest dreams. Or nightmares. Well, sort of. To be ...

The MLB Reserve Clause tied players to their teams in perpetuity, at least until they were traded or teams wanted to let them go. On this day in 1975, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally successfully ...

At Enterprise High football practice last week, new head coach Andy Messersmith demonstrated to players how he wanted a tackling drill to go. So he went and tackled three pop-up dummies. Earlier in ...

The game of baseball changed forever this week in 1975. No, not how the game was played on the field, but how the game was played off the field. Thirty seven years ago this week, arbitrator Peter ...

Andy Messersmith of the Los Angeles Dodgers circa March, 1973. (Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images) Sporting News via Getty Images Free agency is a fact of life in baseball, but it’s a relatively ...