Robert Smith

And baseball fans right now are probably thinking of the Dodgers, who have the highest paid team in baseball, who've won the last two World Series.

And we will talk more about that at the end of the show.

They are fun to watch.

OK, so back to Kurt Flood trying to think about whether to sue baseball.

There's one other thing that is stacked against him, and that is this.

When you look back at the cases that came before Curt Flood, you really get the sense that the judges just kind of didn't want to mess with baseball.

Like baseball, it's like apple pie.

It's this special game.

It's not a normal business.

And you see this in their decisions.

So remember, Curt Flood had gone to the head of the union for advice.

And the bottom line, the head of the union tells Flood, is your case is like a million to one shot.

And even if you happen to win, you're not going to get damages because you're already making this huge, you know, huge for the time salary.

Oh, and also, by the way, if you bring this case, your career as a player is over because nobody's going to want to hire the guy who sued baseball, even as a manager, as whatever.

You're done with baseball if you bring this case.

And importantly, I think, Kurt Flood has already been through a lot in his life up to this point.

When he was coming up in professional baseball in the 1950s, he played on minor league teams in North Carolina and Georgia, where there was just constant racist heckling from the fans.

One time, he even got yelled at by his team's own trainer for

because he put his dirty uniform in the laundry with his white teammates' uniforms.

And in fact, the trainer pulled Flood's uniform out with a stick and sent it to a black laundry 10 miles away.