

He endured indignities like sitting in his soaked jersey between doubleheaders because he could not shower with his teammates and waiting in the bus while his team celebrated winning a championship at a hotel. NEW YORK (AP) The executive director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers has recommended that Congress enact legislation nullifying Major League Baseball's antitrust. Please help Baseball Wiki by revising it.
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Curt Flood Made Free Agency Possible for Other Pro Athletes. This page has been copied from Wikipedia under the provisions of the GNU Free Documentation License. Along the way, Flood navigated segregated Southern minor league cities like Thomasville, N.C. Curt Flood Made Free Agency Possible for Other Pro Athletes. Flood was part of a pioneering wave of Black players who were introduced to segregated baseball in their adolescence, followed Jackie Robinson into the big leagues and emerged as stars at the height of the Civil Rights movement. In a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Curt Flood demanded that the commissioner declare him a free agent. He stacked them up like others do birthdays, stitching together a 226-game errorless streak and claiming the award annually from 1963 to 1969. Throughout most of the 1960s, National League center fielders fought for runner-up to Flood for the position's Gold Glove. Showing fleet feet and a slick glove, Curt Flood patrolled center field like few others to have ever played Major League Baseball.
