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	The Baseball Reliquary - Curt Flood
		Curt Flood was as crucial to the economic rights of ballplayers as Jackie Robinson was to breaking the color barrier.
		Flood had no interest in moving to Philadelphia, a city he had always viewed as racist ("the nation’s northernmost southern city"), but more importantly, he objected to being treated as a piece of property and to the restriction of freedom embedded in the reserve clause.
		Flood’s major league career (his 1970 salary would have been $100,000) effectively ended with his legal action, and he traveled to Europe, spending much of his time there painting and writing, attempting to deal with the pain and frustration of being away from the game he loved.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /flood.htm (704 words)

	Curt Flood & Associates - Missouri 1970 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Flood played in a total of 8 games with the NL's Cincinnati Reds in 1956 and 1957 and then was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, where he became a starter in 1958.
		Flood and his lawyers appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court while Flood decides to sit out the 1970 season.
		Curt Flood was the first fl to play everyday for the Cardinals and became widely regarded as the best defensive center fielder in the game.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,curt-flood-associates,338633.html (692 words)

	Player Profile: Curt Flood
		Flood was eulogized on the floor the U.S. Congress upon his death.
		"Curt Flood and former St. Louis football Cardinal lineman Ernie McMillan helped fund the Aunts and Uncles organization and their mission was to see to it that all kids in the city had good shoes," said Bennie Rodgers, American executive editor.
		Curt Flood, who pioneered free agency by challenging baseball's long-standing reserve clause in the early 1970's, died in Los Angeles Jan. 20 after a battle with throat cancer.
	www.diamondfans.com /profile-flood.html (1145 words)

	Curt Flood: Baseball's Great Emancipator
		Flood's position was that loyalty cuts both ways and that he had earned the right to determine how, when and where his career would end.
		He was no Curt Flood, who was then sitting on the sideline in the prime of his career waiting for the Supreme Court to decide his fate.
		Curt Flood was a true pioneer and pioneers deserve to be enshrined.
	afgen.com /curt_flood.html (834 words)

	Gelf Magazine Curt Flood's Tragic Fight
		Flood is unquestionably the hero of Snyder's account, a man inspired by his own hero, Jackie Robinson, to agitate for economic freedom in baseball.
		Flood sacrificed enormously, interrupting his career with his hitting and fielding skills still near their peak to wage a lonely battle that would, if successful, have benefited his fellow players, who nonetheless mostly declined to stand up and be counted.
		Flood's personal foibles pale in comparison to the missteps of former and current Supreme Court justices, cowardly fellow players, and venal owners, who conspired to make this tale a tragedy, albeit one with a triumphant epilogue as Flood sobers up and makes peace with baseball more than a decade after his trial.
	gelfmagazine.com /archives/curt_floods_tragic_fight.php (4825 words)

	Curt Flood
		Flood asked the commissioner to be let free from the reserve clause-- the clause in every player's contract since the beginning of the century which stated they were bound to the club that they played for, for life, and therefore completely under the control of that team.
		Flood was defeated in district court and state court, and finally he brought his case to the Supreme Court.
		Curt Flood retired from baseball and from what would probably have been a Hall of Fame career, rather than be treated as a piece of property.
	www.angelfire.com /nj/1n5/cflood.html (577 words)

	Curt Flood & Associates - Missouri 1970 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Flood played in a total of 8 games with the NL's Cincinnati Reds in 1956 and 1957 and then was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, where he became a starter in 1958.
		Flood and his lawyers appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court while Flood decides to sit out the 1970 season.
		Curt Flood was the first fl to play everyday for the Cardinals and became widely regarded as the best defensive center fielder in the game.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,curt-flood-associates,338633.html (692 words)

	ESPN Classic - Flood of free agency
		Flood is best remembered for his courage in challenging the reserve clause, a move as crucial to the economic rights of players as Jackie Robinson's was to breaking the color barrier.
		Flood was born on Jan. 18, 1938 in Houston, the youngest of six children of hardworking but poor parents.
		Flood led High Point-Thomasville of the Class B Carolina League to a pennant, leading the league with a.340 average and 133 runs.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Flood_Curt.html (1370 words)

	Curt Flood \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Flood had a marvelous career that will always be marred by his misjudging of a fly ball in the seventh game of the 1968 World Series, and his suit against baseball that eventually led to free agency.
		Curt Simmons, who had won 17 of 20 from the Phils since they released him, is the loser.
		Flood refused to report to the Phillies after he was traded by the Cardinals three months ago, contending the baseball rule violates federal antitrust laws.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/F/Flood_Curt.stm (1105 words)

	What Every Baseball Fan Should Know: The Curt Flood Case part 3
		Curt Flood in his own way was an activist who saw the world changing around him except in the realm of baseball, where the owners power and fiefdoms were still inviolate.
		Curt was determined to conduct his life that way and when the insults reached a point that he could no longer bear, he stepped to the plate in a figurative fashion.
		Flood met with the players’ reps and was subjected to a long and grueling session in which he was questioned about what he would do in many scenarios - including public pressure, pressure from the commissioner’s office, pressure from the owners and the possibility of an offer of a lot money to drop the case.
	www.athomeplate.com /flood3.shtml (1319 words)

	Curt Flood
		Louis Cardinals centerfielder Curt Flood sued Major League Baseball in 1970 on account of the reserve clause, which denied players the basic right to negotiate terms of employment with the team of their choice.
		Curt Flood is well known for bravely standing up against the injustices of baseball that many others with similar opinions simply accepted.
		Curt Flood's story is a story of one man's dedication to a principle of justice.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /pages/cur/Baker_00/2002_p5/baker_p5_1-02_db_br/curt_flood.htm (1312 words)

	With Ozzie in, now induct Curt Flood
		Curt Flood got the credit for germinating the seed and building the case, but had a Hall of Fame career shortened in the process.
		Flood’s sacrifice has created a generation of Hall of Famers who need to know why they are where they are and who is responsible (aside their own performance).
		Flood batted over.300 six times in his politically-shortened 15 year career and his.293 career batting average is higher than a fifth of the 223 players currently in the Hall (including this year’s inductee, Ozzie Smith).
	www.finalcall.com /perspectives/curt_flood08-13-2002.htm (790 words)

	Truthdig - Jabari Asim: Curt Flood, a Star on and off the Field
		Curt Flood, a staple of the Cards’ great teams in the 1960s, died in 1997.
		In the days before sports agents and athletes better known for their sneaker ads than their on-field performance, Flood challenged baseball’s reserve clause, a rule that tied a player to a team as long as the team wanted him, and he could be traded to anywhere without his approval.
		Proud, well-read and possessing the soul of an artist, Flood refused to report to his new team when the Cardinals traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies in the fall of 1969.
	www.truthdig.com /report/print/200601023_jabari_asim_curt_flood_unsung_superstar (767 words)

	Curt Flood Bio - Curt Flood Biography - Curt Flood Stories
		Curt Flood was one of the most important baseball players of all-time.
		Flood was originally signed by the Cincinnati Reds as an amateur free agent in 1956.
		Curt was a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
	www.tv.com /curt-flood/person/269048/biography.html (342 words)

	ESPN.com: GEN - Curt Flood
		Curt Flood was born Jan. 18, 1938, in Houston.
		Flood hit better than.300 six times and won seven Gold Gloves in his 12 seasons with the Cardinals, who won three National League pennants and two World Series titles during Flood's tenure (1964 and 1967).
		Flood's challenge was a bold step for players' rights and the first step on the road to free agency.
	espn.go.com /gen/s/bhm2001/curtflood.html (366 words)

	Sports Figures
		Curt Flood thought so, and his epic battle against major league baseball paved the way for what is the prosperous free agent market that so many baseball players enjoy today.
		Curt Flood was born in 1948 to a poor family in Houston, Texas.
		Now Flood is seen as a hero and patriot for his efforts to give the player a right to have a say in whom he plays for, and how much he makes.
	www.oralcancerfoundation.org /people/sports_figures.htm (8062 words)

	Curt Flood -- Lawsuit brought changes to baseball labor negotiations
		Curt Flood made it to the Major League level at the age of 17.
		Flood had been a little on the wild side as a third baseman in the Reds minor league system and it was obvious Flood wasn't going to knock veteran Don Hoak out of the Reds starting lineup.
		Flood died in 1997 at the age of 59.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/f/flood_curt.html (666 words)

	A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Flood took his lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court, and though he ultimately lost, his decision to sue cost him his career and a chance at the Hall of Fame.
		And they are: Flood the person, Flood as a symbol of the civil rights era of the time, Arthur Goldberg, the inability of the federal judiciary to suppress its sentimental and syrupy attachment to baseball lore, Bowie Kuhn, and the baseball union's reluctance to go all out for Flood.
		The union agreed to fund Flood's lawsuit (this was made a little easier by Goldberg's unilateral decision, which caused strife with his partners, to do it pro bono except for his underlings who were paid their hourly rate).
	www.cheapestbookprice.com /review-A-Well-Paid-Slave-Curt-Flood's-Fight-for-Free-Agency-in-Professional-Sports-Brad-Snyder-067003794X.html (3076 words)

	#21 Curt Flood
		Curt Flood, after twelve years with the St. Louis Cardinals was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.
		On December 24, 1969 Curt Flood, requested to the commissioner, to be declared a free agent.
		Through Curt Flood's actions players such as Eddie Murry, Paul Molitor, and Dave Winfield were able to elongated their careers and reach the 3,000 hit mark.
	members.aol.com /dantonacci/centerfielder/curtflood.html (429 words)

	African American Registry: Curt Flood's suit against baseball ruled
		Flood's lawyer, Arthur Goldberg, gave evidence that baseball's reserve clause violated the antitrust laws by depressing wages and limiting a player to one team.
		Through the course of the case, Flood gained more of the public's sympathy, as the nature of the reserve clause became known.
		Flood's lawyers did not call for a radical reinterpretation of the Constitution.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/933/Curt_Floods_suit_against_baseball_ruled (374 words)

	Scout.com: The Plight of Curt Flood
		On December 24, 1969 Flood, requested to the commissioner, to be declared a free agent.
		Later writing that he (Flood) after twelve years in the major leagues did not feel that he was a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of his wishes.
		Flood's lawyer, Arthur Goldberg, gave evidence that baseball's reserve clause violated by depressing wages and limiting a player to one team.
	stlcardinals.scout.com /2/351758.html (944 words)

	Curt Flood Trial and Appeals: 1970-72 - Flood's Conditioning, The Playoffs, Three Strikes â€¦, Extra Innings, ...
		SIGNIFICANCE: Although Curt Flood lost in the trial and in the subsequent Supreme Court decision, his suit to break the reserve clause of organized baseball led the way to the end of this practice within a few years.
		By his independent and often reviled action, Flood had opened the door for baseball's "free agents," which undeniably led to the late twentieth century revolution in baseball players' salaries and team loyalties.
		But not until 1970 was the reserve clause to be put to a true trial by a prominent player with much to lose, Curt Flood.
	law.jrank.org /pages/3199/Curt-Flood-Trial-Appeals-1970-72.html (646 words)

	Reclaiming Curt Flood; Reclaiming Baseball
		Before Curt Flood’s famous challenge in the early 1970s, baseball players, irrespective of color, were bound to their teams like indentured servants by something called the “reserve clause.” Flood, recognizing the fundamental injustice of this shackle, took this on in a lawsuit which came to be known as Flood v Kuhn.
		While Curt Flood lost these suits, it ultimately set the stage for the elimination of the reserve clause and the advent of “free agency,” the system that we have come to know.
		Flood’s challenge to Major League Baseball was both an act of outstanding courage, as well as a thrust coming from Black America’s love affair with the sport of baseball.
	www.blackathlete.net /artman/publish/article_02057.shtml (985 words)

	SITT - Curt Flood
		Flood was a big part of three pennant winners and two world champions.
		Curt Flood's intention was not about money, but about the right to go where he wanted to go.
		Flood was an outstanding player devoted to his craft.
	www.thediamondangle.com /sitt/flood.html (351 words)

	2007 Veterans Committee Profile: Curt Flood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet to think of Flood’s career in a baseball only in terms of his legal battles in the U.S. Supreme Court is to ignore a career that earned Flood fame on the field.
		As great a centerfielder as Flood was, his defense in ‘68 caused the Cardinals fans an offseason of agony they won’t forget.
		He wasn’t, however, the Curt Flood of the ‘60s, and he was out of the game after that one season with the Senators.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /news/2007/election/vc/flood.htm (730 words)

	Brad Snyder
		Flood's biographer needs legal expertise to understand and represent his court case properly and he should have the critical honesty to portray Flood as a highly courageous yet deeply flawed person.
		Curt Flood took a stand for not only himself, but for future generations of athletes.
		Here is the most comprehensive biography of Flood; a sensitive depiction of how he became an outstanding athlete and a man with the necessary determination and integrity to take on the major league baseball owners, the established rulers of the game.
	www.wellpaidslave.com /reviews.html (1609 words)

	Curt Flood; An American Hero
		When Curt Flood died of inoperable throat cancer at age 59, the sports world lost a man of integrity who placed individual freedom ahead of monetary gain.
		However, Flood argued he was only seeking the same freedoms afforded to every other American worker.
		Flood later remembered, "I was telling my story to deaf ears, to a person who would give his first born child to be doing what I was doing.
	users.mylifeline.net /modernrat/flood.htm (876 words)

	Curt Flood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Curt Flood was the star center fielder of the St. Louis Cardinals who challenged baseball's reserve system all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Flood's rise to prominence began when he was traded from St. Louis to Philadelphia after the 1969 season.
		Flood couldn't accept that he was being treated like piece of property, and believed that players had the right to consider other options.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/cflood.php (224 words)

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