Kurt Flood in Podcasts
personKurt Flood was a professional baseball player who challenged the reserve clause in Major League Baseball.
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And Kurt Flood stood up in a room full of Major League Baseball players, and he told them, you know, stand your ground.
His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, kind of ruined Curt Flood's life, and it helped change professional sports forever.
But Kurt Flood did not really have a choice.
And on top of that, Kurt Flood was Black, and Phillies fans had a history of treating the team's Black players badly.
Kurt Flood didn't want to go to Philadelphia.
But when he rolled over and picked up the phone at 4 a.m., a middle manager from the Cardinals front office told Kurt Flood he had just been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Flood was 31 years old at the time, and he'd spent the last 12 years, almost his entire adult life, playing center field for the St.
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