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Curt Flood
American
Athlete
About the author
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Fans
#Problems
#Baseball
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Public
#Baseball
#Growth
#Decision
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#American
#Succeed
#Dream
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Life
#People
#Tragedy
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Years
#Change
#Injustice
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Country
#Man
#Men
#America
#Constitution
#Dying
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#American
#Ugly
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Time
#God
#World
#America
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Being
#Property
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Want
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Rebellion
Baseball regards us as sheep.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Sheep
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Man
#Lying
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#People
#Work
#Court
#Waiting
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#Money
#Jobs
#Coaching
#Fame
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#May
#Treatment
#Environment
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.
Curt Flood,
American
Athlete
#People
#Money
#Manager