Curt Flood
Curt Flood
Curtis Charles Floodwas a Major League Baseballcenter fielder who spent 15-seasons in the major leagues playing for the Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Washington Senators...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 January 1938
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete child deaf telling
I was telling my story to deaf ears, because I was telling my story to a person who would give their first-born child to be doing what I was doing.
baseball funny-things uniforms
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
pieces goods humans
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
baseball establishment revelry
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
baseball rebellion relevant
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
baseball thinking people
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.
baseball lying men
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.
jobs coaching fame
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
sports squash ugly
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
thinking years black
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
happened ifs
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
people greek trying
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
baseball years league
Dear Mr. Kuhn, 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
jobs thinking coaching
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.