A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on December 14, 2007
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports By Brad Snyder Viking, October 2006 $25.95, ISBN 0-670-03794-X
No matter how history night judge former major league baseball star Curt Flood, most serious baseball fans would argue that he deserves considerable recognition for his pioneering spirit. In Brad Snyder’s A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports, the writer mainly discusses Flood’s trials, tribulations, travails and trade-offs, and his giant step in making sports history.
Flood was a skillful baseball player, known more for his defensive flair, even though he batted more than 300 six times in during his 15-year career. He played with the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals and a brief stint with the Washington Senators. He was a significant contributor to three pennant-winning Cardinal teams, and he was also a three-time all-star. But Flood became more famous for paving the way for “free agency” in major league baseball, a vehicle that made millionaires out of once very ordinary major league baseball players.
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