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Overview

After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood's decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, ...
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Overview

After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood's decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, his influence on sports history puts him in a league with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali.

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It wasn't just that he hated Philadelphia; All-Star center fielder Curt Flood wanted to stay in St. Louis, the town he loved. When the Cardinals traded him to the Phillies in 1969, the independent-minded Flood sued Major League Baseball, seeking to invalidate baseball's reserve clause, which bound players to a team for life. The fleet-footed outfielder pursued the case ultimately to the United States Supreme Court, where he lost by a 5-3 vote. The decision cost Flood his career and his chance to join baseball's Hall of Fame. Ironically, his unsuccessful suit paved the way for the eventual demise of this oppressive rule and the advent of free agency. Brad Synder's A Well-Paid Slave places Flood's fight within the context of the civil rights movement and other contemporary events. A biography of a worthy successor to Jackie Robinson.
Bruce Schoenfeld
Writing with dispatch and grace, [Snyder] places Flood's challenge to baseball squarely where it belongs, as the final radical act of the 1960s civil rights movement. Self-educated, Flood had read far more than most players, managed to integrate his neighborhood, occasionally visited Mississippi and other flash points, but otherwise was forced by his profession to remain far from the fray. On the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, he was playing center field in San Francisco. "I should be there instead of here," he said.
— The Washington Post
From The Critics
The author of Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball, Snyder is a sure-handed and meticulous guide. He knows baseball and writes about the law engagingly and clearly…Generations of ballplayers—Curt Flood's children—have never honored him properly. But with his fine book, Brad Snyder surely has.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670037940
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 10/5/2006
  • Pages: 480
  • Product dimensions: 6.34 (w) x 9.26 (h) x 1.49 (d)

Meet the Author

BRAD SNYDER's previous book, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators, won the Robert Peterson Recognition award from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and was a finalist for SABR's Seymour Medal, Spitball Magazine's Casey Award, and Elysian Fields Quarterly's Dave Moore Award. A graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, Snyder has written for the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and the St. Petersburg Times.
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  • Posted June 13, 2010

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    A Dissapointment

    This book was a downer; heavily weighed down by legal minutia; perhaps like the subject himself. I was expecting a book revealing the integrity of Curt Flood, but this book portrays him in a mostly negative light. I don't know enough about him to comment on accuracy but halfway through the book I stopped caring about the subject.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2007

    Top notch reading

    This book is just not about baseball but about what life was like fifty years ago. I rank this book up there with the best I have ever read. I couldn't put it down.

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