Section 04 · The Sheet
Somebody has to write it down. Then somebody has to amend it.
The constitution, and who keeps the sheet. 4 pieces.
- 04.01Somebody has to write it down. Then somebody has to amend it.A league constitution is a real document with a real amendment procedure, and the leagues that last are the ones that wrote theirs before they needed it.Long
- 04.02Somebody in every league keeps the sheet, and it is almost never the commissionerRecord-keeping is the unpaid office that decides every disputed keeper deadline.Short
- 04.03The 2011 lockout, against contracts written in monthsLeagues whose rules assumed an uninterrupted calendar discovered what their own text actually said.Long
- 04.04Priest Holmes in 2002, at a ninth-round keeper priceThe season a late pick became the most valuable contract in the league, and what it taught everybody about escalators.Medium
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