One Man Out: Curt Flood Versus Baseball

by Robert M. Goldman

Book Overview

When Curt Flood, all-star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968, he sent shock waves throughout professional baseball that ultimately reached the Supreme Court. Flood challenged the game's reserve clause system that bound players to teams as if they were property; and while others had previously spoken out against this arrangement, protected by Congress and the courts for a century, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616039
• ISBN13: 9780700616039
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"