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A well-paid slave: curt flood's fight for free agency in professional sports

By Snyder , Brad

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group;Plume
Year
2014
ISBN
9781440619014, 1440619018
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
600 kB (614808 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Recreation;SPORTS & RECREATION--Baseball--History;

Description

After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood's decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, his influence on sports history puts him in a league with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali.

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