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Author | : Brad Snyder |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007-09-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1440619018 |
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A “captivating”* look at how center fielder Curt Flood's refusal to accept a trade changed Major League Baseball forever. 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. *The Washington Post
Author | : Brad Snyder |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007-09-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780452288911 |
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A “captivating”* look at how center fielder Curt Flood's refusal to accept a trade changed Major League Baseball forever. 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. *The Washington Post
Author | : Abraham Iqbal Khan |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 162846822X |
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Curt Flood in the Media examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood (1938–1997), the star centerfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. At the time, all Major League Baseball players were subject to the reserve clause, which essentially bound a player to work in perpetuity for his original team, unless traded for another player or sold for cash, in which case he worked under the same reserve conditions for the next team. Flood refused the trade on a matter of principle, arguing that Major League Baseball had violated both US antitrust laws and the 13th Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude. In a defiant letter to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn asking for his contractual release, Flood infamously wrote, “after twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.” Most significantly, Flood appeared on national television with Howard Cosell and described himself as a “well-paid slave.” Explosive controversy ensued. Khan examines the ways in which the media constructed the case and Flood's persona. By examining the mainstream press, the Black press, and primary sources, including Flood's autobiography, Khan exposes the complexities of what it means to be a prominent Black American athlete—in 1969 and today.
Author | : Alex Belth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780892553211 |
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Documents the lawsuit of Curt Flood, who objected to his trade to the Phillies in 1969, discussing how his case helped advance the rights of professional athletes, in an account that includes coverage of his childhood and career.
Author | : Marvin Miller |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9781566635998 |
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Marvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed
Author | : Edward Ball |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374534454 |
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"Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves. Through meticulous research and by interviewing scattered relatives, Ball contacted some 100,000 African-Americans who are all descendants of Ball slaves. In intimate conversations with them, he garnered information, hard words, and devastating family stories of precisely what it means to be enslaved. He found that the family plantation owners were far from benevolent patriarchs; instead there is a dark history of exploitation, interbreeding, and extreme violence"--Publisher description.
Author | : Louis Hughes |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752305118 |
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Reproduction of the original: Thirty Years A Slave by Louis Hughes
Author | : Craig Steven Wilder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608194027 |
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A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Author | : Spencer Weber Waller |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815320579 |
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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1855 |
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