American - Athlete | January 18, 1938 - January 20, 1997
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood
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But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
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I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
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Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
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All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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Baseball regards us as sheep.
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Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
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I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
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I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
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I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
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I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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