As Jesse Jackson said when speaking at Flood’s funeral:
#Curt flood free possible other pro free
Flood lost his case, but turned public opinion and the fortunes of the Player’s Union around, setting the stage for the player’s victory in achieving free agency. Still, this is an important story, and if you are willing to slog your way through you will be rewarded by what you can learn. A better writer would have included less detail for greater drama. When writing about court proceedings, Snyder included such trivial minutiae as the order in which the justices were seated. Every person named in the book, from Flood’s relatives, teammates, and girlfriends, managers, Baseball and Union executives, lawyers, judges, sports writers, bat boys (okay, not bat boys) received mini biographies, from childhood onward. Author Brad Snyder, a lawyer, wasn’t quite up to weaving these elements into a readable story. It was a long, strange trip to find out.Ĭurt Flood’s story was a complex one. I had always been curious to better understand just how Flood’s Supreme Court loss became the catalyst for the Player’s Union’s eventual victory. Yet his loss is celebrated as the opening salvo in the battle that won economic freedom for Major League baseball players.
He stood to gain nothing if he won and lose everything if he failed, but went all in anyhow for the benefit of other players and his sense of fair play.
His failed bid to overturn baseball’s Reserve Clause in the courts is legendary. Curt Flood sacrificed his baseball career for a principal.
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