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Curt Flood [1938-1997] American

Rank: 104
Athlete, Baseball player

Curtis Charles Flood was a Major League Baseball center fielder who spent 15-seasons in the major leagues playing for the Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Washington Senators.
Flood was an All-Star for three seasons and Gold Glove winner for seven consecutive seasons. He batted over .300 seven seasons. He led the National League in hits in 1964 and in singles, 1963, 64, and 68.

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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.		101
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.		102
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.		103
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.		104
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.		105
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.		106
Baseball regards us as sheep.		107
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.		108
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.		109
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.		110
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.		111
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.		112
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.		113
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.		114
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.		115
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.		116
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.		117
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.		118
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.		119

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