The final curtain
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 3, 2008
FRANK Lloyd Wright was an arrogant man and he cultivated what you might consider a shortcoming into what he saw as a virtue. It is far nobler, to paraphrase Wright, to be honestly arrogant than to be dishonestly self-effacing.
And he had the genius to carry it off in style, even dressing the part, capes and [...]
Curt Flood Is Dead at 59; Outfielder Defied Baseball
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on December 14, 2007
Curt Flood, the All-Star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960’s who became a pioneering figure in the legal attack on baseball’s reserve clause that foreshadowed the era of free agents, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 59.
Flood died at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where he had been a patient in [...]