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Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame

There was a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that hung in the living room of his widow, Coretta Scott King. It was painted by Curt Flood. There was a proposal introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., the Democrat from Detroit, to remove baseball's controversial antitrust exemption. It was numbered HR 21 after the...

Curt Flood: An Extraordinary Man of Principle and Conviction

One of the signature chapters in the Curt Flood story -- the story of his historic fight against baseball's reserve clause, and the story of his life overall -- played out in Puerto Rico in December 1969, some two months after the trade from St. Louis to Philadelphia that had, seemingly innocently, started the wheels of...

Curt Flood a Hero to Today's Players ... Those Who Know His Name, That Is

Curt Flood may not have reaped the benefits of his stand against Major League Baseball, but every player who followed certainly has every time they've negotiated a new contract.Even though Flood was ultimately unsuccessful in striking down baseball's reserve clause, he opened the door for the challenges that soon followed...

For Curt Flood, Antitrust Meant Exactly That at Supreme Court

If Curt Flood were an athlete in any sport other than baseball, he would have certainly won his 1972 Supreme Court antitrust case. Flood wanted the Court to rule that the "reserve clause" that baseball teams used to tie a player to the team that first signed him, and allowed the team to trade the player with no ability to...

Hammerin' Hank Greenberg Could Relate to Curt Flood

What would make a major-league baseball team executive testify in court on behalf of a player threatening to dismantle the system that tilted completely in the teams' favor?A long memory, of possibly the most blatant example of how the utterly capricious whim of an owner can uproot a player regardless of how spectacular,...