Baseball regards us as sheep.
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But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.Curt Flood
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Curt Flood
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
Curt Flood
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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I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
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