Literary birthday greetings: Curt Flood

January 18, 2011

“The Great Emancipator” would have been 72 today.

Flood published his story — The Way It Is — in 1971, the year he retired from the game. Since then, several books about Flood’s role in creating the free agent dream (or nightmare, depending on your point of view), have been released with lesser or greater legal spins. Among them:

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