A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports

By: Snyder, Brad

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...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BJYM3T1D
• ISBN13: 9798400124860
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher