Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.Curt Flood
I was telling my story to deaf ears, because I was telling my story to a person who would give their first-born child to be doing what I was doing.
Curt Flood
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Curt Flood
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
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