A Well-Paid Slave (69 page)

195 “This is”; “If I signed”:
WP
, 10/15/70, G1.

195 A few moments:
NYT
, 10/17/70, 34; Flood,
The Way It Is,
210.

196 Instead, Flood agreed: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys, and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

196 Flood sent a telegram: Flood,
The Way It Is,
211.

196 A Georgetown law graduate: Blount, “Birds of a Feather Flock to Bob,”
SI
, 11/2/70, 27-28; Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys, and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 91-92.

196 He wanted: Blount, “Birds of a Feather Flock to Bob,”
SI
, 11/2/70, 28.

197 “faces”: Underwood, “They're Ho-Hummers No More,”
SI
, 3/15/71, 28; Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 67.

197 “I think Flood”:
WP
, 10/14/70, D1.

197 Rumors surfaced:
TSN
, 6/20/70, 16;
TSN
, 8/1/70, 16;
WP
, 8/9/70, 45 (rumors continued after meeting);
TSN
, 8/15/70, 5 (no settlement talk reported);
TSN
, 8/22/70, 8 (Holtzman disbelieves settlement rumors).

197 Short was:
TSN,
8/1/70, 21.

197 After the meeting: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

197 During the World Series:
PI
, 10/14/70, 33, 37;
PDN
, 10/14/70, 55.

197 Later that week; “What the”; “I'm going”:
PI
, 10/18/70, sec. 3, 1, 14.

198 On October 22: Phone Logs, 10/20/70, Goldberg Papers, Box I:135, Folder 4.

198 Goldberg trailed badly:
NYT
, 10/26/70, 42.

198 Miller had reluctantly: Marvin Miller interview.

198 Breslin talked:
NYTM
, 11/1/70, 59.

198 “It wasn't supposed”: Marvin Miller interview.

198 “In my mind's eye”: Marvin Miller interview.

198 Goldberg handed Short: “Proposals for Uniform Contract Between Curt Flood and the Washington Senators,” Miller Papers, Box 3, Folder 9; Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

199 Short agreed: Flood,
The Way It Is,
211-12; Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

199 the money:
NYP
, 10/29/70, 72.

199 “Commissioner Kuhn”: Flood,
The Way It Is,
212.

199 The only thing: Ibid., 212-13.

199 farce:
PI
, 11/1/70, sec. 3, 1, 15;
WP
, 11/4/70, B1;
TSN
, 11/21/70, 56, 54.

199 Kuhn was determined:
WP
, 10/29/70, H1;
NYT
, 10/30/70, 49.

199 “Then there's”: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

199 He advised:
PDN
, 11/6/70, 64.

199-200 “In effect”: Marvin Miller interview.

200 “If you think”: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

200 If Flood had:
NYT
, 12/19/70, 36.

200 “Do you think”: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94.

200 “Well, I understand”: Miller,
A Whole Different Ball Game
, 201; Marvin Miller interview.

200 “And if anybody”:
SPD
, 12/16/70, 3G;
WP
, 12/17/70, E1;
CST
, 1/4/71, 82.

200 Finally, at Goldberg's:
HP
, 3/15/70, 2/D;
NYT
, 12/19/70, 36.

200 He even met: Marvin Miller interview.

200 “You're going”:
PI
, 11/1/70, sec. 3, 1, 15.

201 Instead, they selected: Whitfield,
Kiss It Goodbye
, 157-59.

201 “You're not going”; “Of course”; “I wouldn't”: Marvin Miller interview.

201 “I'll do it”: Linn, “The Man Who Begs, Buys and Borrows Trouble,”
Sport
, 5/71, 94, 96.

201 Some of Flood's:
TSN
, 12/26/70, 36.

201 At their winter meeting: Ibid., 40, 42.

201 “The Players Association”: Ibid., 40.

202 “a list of all”: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

202 “Baseball”:
WP
, 11/8/70, 46.

202 “by chasing”:
WP
, 11/19/72, E2.

202 Flood pointed to Muhammad Ali:
NYP
, 10/29/70, 72.

202 He told: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

202 “I feel like”: Ibid., S-6.

202 After changing:
WP
, 11/18/70, C1; White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-7;
WDN
, 11/18/70, 71.

202 “There was”: William Gildea interview.

203 “God”: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-7.

203 “stiff”:
WP
, 11/25/70, D1.

203 They made it:
SPT
, 11/18/70, 1-C, 3-C.

203 He spoke with Gildea: William Gildea interview;
WP
, 11/18/70, C1;
WP
, 11/19/70, E2.

203 He opened up: Russ White interview.

203 “Are you writing”:
WDN
, 11/18/70, 71.

203 He stayed; He also read: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-7.

203 “a rather”; “I'm concerned”:
WP
, 11/18/70, C1.

203 Flood had visited: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

203 Before the Reds:
CE
, 4/12/57, 26;
CE
, 4/13/57, 11;
NYT
, 4/13/57, 14. Flood mistakenly remembered being with the Cardinals in 1958, but, before the 1958 regular season, the Cardinals traveled through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.
SPD
, 3/31/58, 4C. The 1957 Reds played their next game in Baltimore, just as Flood remembered. Compare
CE
, 4/13/57, 11, with White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

203 Williams claimed:
TSN
, 12/12/70, 57.

204 “Short's a star”: Shelby Whitfield interview.

204 “I just want”; “A trade”:
WP
, 11/25/70, D1.

204 “I can't think”:
WDN
, 11/25/70, 55.

204 “How good”; “I don't know”:
TSN
, 12/12/70, 57.

204 A few days earlier:
SPT
, 11/18/70, 3-C.

204 He lived for much: Judy Pace Flood interview.

204 “Right now”:
SPT
, 11/18/70, 3-C.

204 “Of course America”:
WP
, 11/25/70, D1;
TSN
, 12/12/70, 16.

204 He appeared January 18:
WP
, 1/19/71, C1;
WP
, 1/17/71, 39.

204 Ted Williams skipped:
WP
, 1/24/71, 50;
NYT
, 1/24/71, 56;
WP
, 2/3/71, D1;
TSN
, 2/6/71, 44.

205 “chief masquerade”:
NYT
, 2/1/71, 40.

205 Maury Allen:
NYP
, 2/1/71, 49.

205 Allen, as Flood:
NYT
, 2/1/71, 40.

205 “We know”:
NYP
, 2/1/71, 49.

206 dismissed before trial:
Salerno v. American League of Professional Baseball Clubs
, 310 F. Supp. 729 (S.D.N.Y. 1969).

206 Before the appeals court's: Holtzman, “Attendance and Litigation Were Up in 1970,” 286-87.

206 We freely acknowledge:
Salerno v. American League of Professional Baseball Clubs
, 429 F.2d 1003, 1005 (2d Cir. 1970) (citations omitted).

207 On January 11:
Salerno v. Kuhn
, 400 U.S. 1001 (Jan. 11, 1971).

207 “may not have”: Flood Second Circuit Brief, 2.

207 “If Curt Flood”: Ibid., 14.

207
Salerno
did not address: Ibid., 16.

207 Flood's brief: Ibid., 13.

207 They used a large chunk: Owners Second Circuit Brief, 16-27.

207 The owners' lawyers figured: Douglas Robinson interview.

207 They rebutted: Owners Second Circuit Brief, 28-29.

208 They also informed: Ibid., 4-5.

208 “run from one”: Flood Second Circuit Reply Brief, 5.

208 In
Federal Baseball
: Ibid., 5-8.

208 did not receive:
NYT
, 1/28/71, 28;
WP
, 1/28/71, F1; nothing in the
New York Law Journal
or
New York Post
; a single paragraph in the
Daily News
,
NYDN
, 1/28/71, 100.

208 On the day of the argument: Lou Hoynes interview.

208 fifth and final:
NYLJ
, 1/27/71, 71.

209 Even so, Hoynes slipped: Lou Hoynes interview.

209 After 90 minutes, the three judges:
NYLJ
, 1/28/71, 16.

209 “The book”:
LAT
, 2/23/71, pt. 3, 1.

209 “as randy as”: Flood,
The Way It Is,
100.

209 Flood told tales: Ibid
.,
104-6.

209 “swapped booze”: Ibid., 88.

209 “In case any”: Ibid., 101-2.

209 “As a star, a black man”:
CST
, 2/8/71, 90.

210 Bowie Kuhn:
WP
, 2/7/71, 93.

210 Kuhn got his revenge:
WP
, 3/12/71, D1.

210 “tripe”; “Mr. Busch pets”; “Philadelphia offered”:
BN
, 2/3/71, 15.

210-11 “emerges as a cynic”; “He's the”; “I want”; “Curt is”:
SPD
, 3/4/71, 2C;
TSN
, 3/27/71, 26.

211 Flood described: Flood,
The Way It Is,
76-77.

211 “was a long”:
SGD
, 2/24/71, 3B;
TSN
, 3/13/71, 37.

211 Flood said Musial: Flood,
The Way It Is,
64.

211 simpleminded company man; “wunnerful”: Ibid.
,
52-53.

211 Musial was deeply hurt:
SGD
, 2/24/71, 3B;
TSN
, 3/13/71, 37.

211 “a great American”; “it would appear”; “The one common”:
SGD
, 2/24/71, 3B;
TSN
, 3/13/71, 37.

211 “Curt's public disclosure”: Whitfield,
Kiss It Goodbye
, 159.

211 “ill-advised”; “Baseball has”:
WP
, 1/23/70, B2.

212 “Tell you this”; “Like Curt”; “No, he's entitled”:
NYT
, 4/22/71, 49.

212 Even one of Flood's biggest boosters: Whitfield,
Kiss It Goodbye
, 159.

213 He had vowed:
WES
, 11/24/70, A-22.

213 He quietly passed:
WES
, 3/14/71, E-2.

213 He did not hold:
TSN
, 4/10/71, 33, 44.

213 “Free Angela Davis”: Elliott Maddox interview.

213 “Fuck you”:
WP
, 6/30/74, D3.

214 Flood walked; “I like”; Maddox idolized; One baseball subject: Elliott Maddox interview.

214 “I have one”:
WP
, 2/23/71, D1.

214 He later claimed:
TSN
, 4/10/71, 33.

214 Back in the room: Elliott Maddox interview.

214 “He's out there”; “Curt came back”:
NYP
, 3/8/71, 46.

214 Maddox knew: Elliott Maddox interview.

215 “Ted is a nonconformist”: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

215 Williams recalled:
WP
, 12/29/70, F1.

215 Flood recalled: White, “Baseball's Roaming Son Back at ‘Kid's Game' and Liking It,”
WES Sportsweek
, 11/22/70, S-14.

215 “I'm glad you're”:
SI
, 3/15/71, 33.

215 Williams indoctrinated; “I thought so”:
TSN
, 3/13/71, 41.

216 “the Underminers Club”: Denny McLain interview; Whitfield,
Kiss It Good-bye
, 102.

216 “because they were not”:
NYT
, 7/26/66, 28;
TSN
, 8/6/66, 5.

216 Mexican mother and his childhood: Montville,
Ted Williams
, 19-23, 35-37, 39.

216 During the 1971 season: Elliott Maddox interview.

216 “As good a player”:
NYT
, 2/23/71, 44.

216 Privately, Williams: Shelby Whitfield interview.

216 “Sure, I lived”:
OT
, 4/5/71, 37.

216 “Flood has to have”:
SPD
, 3/24/71, 18A.

216 Team trainer: Bill Zeigler interview.

217 “aged ten years”:
CT
, 5/1/71, F4.

217 During his first time:
WP
, 2/23/71, D1;
WDN
, 2/23/71, 36;
WES
, 2/23/71, A-11.

217 He failed:
WP
, 3/4/71, 97;
WDN
, 3/4/71, 60.

217 “They don't know”:
WDN
, 2/23/71, 46.

217 He finally got:
WP
, 3/9/71, D4;
WES
, 3/12/71, A-14.

217 “The toughest thing”:
NYT
, 3/28/71, sec. 5, 3.

217 His throw:
WP
, 3/17/71, C1;
WP
, 3/16/71, D1;
WES
, 3/16/71, A-12.