This week, Planet Money explored how athletes negotiate their own value in professional sports. The episodes traced the history of free agency in baseball—a labor victory that fundamentally reshaped how players and teams do business—and followed a WNBA negotiator working to secure similar leverage for women's basketball players today. Together, they illustrate how hard-won labor rights in one sport can take decades to materialize in another.
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