Curt Flood's Profile
Brief about Curt Flood: By info that we know Curt Flood was born at 1938-01-18. And also Curt Flood is American Athlete.
Some Curt Flood's quotes. Goto "Curt Flood's quotation" section for more.Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Tags: Against, Baseball, RebellionI'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
Tags: Human, Piece, PropertyAnd 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.
Tags: Baseball, Black, TimesBut I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Tags: Ballplayer, Here, MajorI'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
Tags: Happened, Often, TimesI'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.
Tags: Black, Change, LifeIf you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Tags: American, Great, UglyIt was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Tags: Baseball, Problems, UnderstandPeople try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Tags: Happy, Life, TryThe baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
Tags: Baseball, PermissiveAll 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.
Tags: Give, Waiting, WorkCustomary 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.
Tags: May, Story, WriteI 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.
Tags: God, Greatest, TimeI 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.
Tags: Black, Money, WhyI'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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