A Well-Paid Slave (74 page)

328 In 2005, he served as the chairman:
NYT
, 11/4/05, A16.

328 said he'd had no choice: “Curt Flood,”
ESPN SportsCentury
.

328-29 “I don't think”; In Burger's: Bowie Kuhn interview.

329 To the Chief Justice: Kuhn,
Hardball
(signed copy) (on file with author).

329 In May, Cardinals general manager:
OT
, 6/12/78.

329 “You were always”: Karen Brecher interview.

329 Flood donned:
SPD
, 6/10/78, 1B;
SPD
, 6/11/78, 3F;
OT
, 6/12/78.

330 Gibson playfully pinched:
SPD
, 6/11/78, 3F.

330 The two old friends; Flood spent: Karen Brecher interview.

330 One afternoon; “A lot of people”: Larry Baer interview.

330 The best thing: Karen Brecher interview.

330 Flood tried to earn: Ibid.;
CE
, 12/7/78, D-1.

331 “I guess”:
CE
, 12/7/78, D-1.

331 Without his $300; “not that altruistic”: Karen Brecher interview.

331 “[O]ver the past seven years”: Flood, “The Legacy of Curt Flood,”
Sport
, 11/77, 40.

331 “I wanted to bring”:
NYT
, 3/1/79, B9; “Thanks, Curt,”
SI
, 3/12/79, 13;
SFC
, 3/19/79, 50.

331 “All around”; “bitter”: “Thanks, Curt,”
SI
, 3/12/79, 13.

331 “There's a negative undertone”:
SFE
, 5/11/80, B1.

331 “Curt Flood got you”:
SFC
, 3/8/80, 44.

332 “When I started my case”: “Baseball's Forgotten Man,”
Newsweek
, 4/2/79, 18.

332 Before the 1980 season; “that if anything”:
SFC
, 3/8/80, 44.

332 “I think people”:
TSN
, 4/5/80, 32.

332 Flood's biggest disappointment: Karen Brecher interview; Jesse Gonder interview.

332-33 Flood's consumption; With Karen's help: Karen Brecher interview.

333 Flood's sobriety: Bill Patterson interview.

333 “I'm the Bowie”: “Whatever Happened to . . . Curt Flood,”
Ebony
, 3/81, 56.

333 His job as youth baseball commissioner:
NYT
, 5/26/81, B9, B12;
OT
, 6/14/81, D1, D4;
SGD
, 5/26/82, 6D; “Whatever Happened to . . . Curt Flood,”
Ebony
, 3/81, 56.

333 The Bay Area Life Membership:
OT
, 3/9/80, A-3.

334 The Oakland Public Schools: Tribute book (on file with author).

334 “If they backslide”:
SFE
, 5/11/80, B1.

334 “I lived”:
SFC
, 9/4/79, 20.

334-35 “I'll never forget”; “I saw Bill White”; “Times”: Letter from Gibson to Flood, 1/12/81 (on file with author).

335 “Some people”; “that opened”; “So today”:
TSN
, 4/24/82, 8;
Newsweek
, 10/11/82, 85.

335 Flood rationalized:
Utica Press
, 8/2/82, 19.

335 Cutty Sark donated: Ibid.;
NYDN
, 1/8/82, C32.

335 Karen knew that Curt: Karen Brecher interview.

335 “lack of blacks”; “It is time”:
OT
, 3/9/80, A-3.

336 A few weeks before:
Utica Press
, 8/2/82, 19.

336 Flood paid his own way: Karen Brecher interview.

336 “If Curt Flood”: Frank Robinson Hall of Fame speech transcript, 33, Baseball Hall of Fame; for variations of this quote, see
Utica Press
, 8/2/82, 15;
NYT
, 8/2/82, C7.

337 A friend of Flood's: Judy Pace Flood interview.

337 The movie plans:
SFE
, 9/1/87, F7; Craft, “Curt Flood,”
Baseball Cards
, 9/88, 74.

337 “I wasn't going”:
SFE
, 9/1/87, F7.

337 with a public push:
SFC
, 7/18/86, 89.

338 Curt Jr., who bears:
Newark Star-Ledger
, 8/7/2002, 49.

338 Flood rejected:
NYT
, 5/26/81, B9;
SPD
, 10/30/89, 3C;
SFC
, 2/14/95, D1.

338 “Don't make my life”:
OT
, 7/10/94, B-1.

338 “the central fact”:
Sport
, 12/86, 106.

338 “I did it because”:
SFC
, 2/14/95, D1.

338 “I certainly hope”:
OT
, 6/14/81, D-1.

338 “jealousy”; “prejudice”; “The good old boys”: Whitford, “Curt Flood,”
Sport
, 12/86, 106.

338 “I have never felt”:
SFC
, 2/14/95, D1.

338-39 “I am bitter now”; he understood why Hank Aaron; “guilty by association”: Burns/Flood interview transcript, 10.

339 Cosell wrote:
SFC
, 7/18/86, 89. In 1986, only one former player worked for the Players Association: Former Baltimore Orioles shortstop and union executive board member Mark Belanger was hired at the behest of the players when he retired after the 1982 season. In 1993, former second baseman Tony Bernazard was hired to help the association communicate with Latin players. Belanger and Bernazard were the only two former players hired by the union during Flood's lifetime. Interview (anon.) by author.

339 “as a traitor”:
Seattle Times
, 2/3/86, C3.

339 “One of the reasons”:
OT
, 6/5/94, B-9.

339 “we've only”:
TSN
, 2/17/86, 41.

339 “may not have some”:
NYT
, 4/8/87, B10.

339 Black former major leaguers:
BMS
, 11/10/87, 3G; Robinson,
Extra Innings
, 1-22.

339 Flood was among:
NYT
, 12/8/87, D25.

339 “I had written”:
CT
, 6/30/87, sec. 4, 4.

340 In November 1987, Flood and 60:
BMS
, 11/10/87, 3G;
BG
, 11/28/87, 25;
LAT
, 12/9/87, S3.

340 “Forty years”; owner:
BMS
, 11/10/87, 3G.

340 designed a piece: Jim “Mudcat” Grant interview.

340 Flood came close; Maxvill flew out; During the interview: Dal Maxvill interview.

341 At the NAACP's Image Awards: Craft and Owens,
Redbird Revisited
, 81-82; Craft, “Curt Flood,”
Baseball Cards
, 9/88, 74;
SPT
, 12/15/87, 2D.

341 That same year:
OT
, 9/3/87, D-4;
SFE
, 9/1/87, F7.

341 Two years later:
OT
, 10/27/89, F-6.

341 “Thanks for all”:
SFC
, 5/24/84, 78; Dickey, “Curt Flood,”
Inside Sports
, 8/85, 77.

341 “I thought”:
TSN
, 6/19/89, 10.

341 He drew sports cartoons: Curran, “Curt Flood and the Baseball Revolution,”
LA Weekly
, 4/1-7/94, 27.

341 He also started: Ibid.;
OT
, 2/4/94, B-8.

342 He surprised: Marge Brans interview.

342 “he was part”; “I didn't appreciate”: Ibid. (quoting Memorial Service video).

342 Karen had been: Mailgram, 1/30/81, Karen Brecher to Toastmaster, California Coaches' Association (on file with author).

342 The person who had recommended: Joe Garagiola interview; Jim Morley interview.

342 Garagiola apologized: Whitford,
Extra Innings
, 83.

342 “I thought if the”:
NYT
, 1/21/97, B10;
PDN
, 1/22/97, 72.

342 Flood's job: Jim Morley interview;
NYP
, 6/1/89, 85.

342 At Opening Day in Pompano Beach: Paul Casanova interview.

343 He deferred:
Orlando Sentinel
, 7/9/89, C13;
TSN
, 9/18/89, 25.

343 As a cost-cutting measure: Jim Morley interview.

343 Some people speculated: Golenbock,
The Forever Boys
, xi.

343 Don Fehr honored Miller; Miller's admiration: Marvin Miller interview.

343 “It may be”: Blackmun Oral History, 4/24/95, 185.

344 Flood, wearing:
PT
, 12/13/94, 7C.

344 “Don't let them”:
NYP
, 1/21/97, 75.

344 “Curt Flood remains”:
CT
, 12/7/94, S3. For similar quotes see
PI
, 12/7/94, D6;
USA Today
, 12/7/94, 6C.

344 “I'm entering”: Flood, “A New Idea,”
Sport
, 4/95, 43.

345 Tim McCarver watched: Tim McCarver interview.

345 “I am in the process”: 1994 Christmas Letter, 2 (on file with author).

345 The fairy-tale ending; “sounded like”; doctors discovered:
OT
, 2/16/96, B-2.

345 Word leaked out:
CT
, 10/25/95, sec. 4, 3; “Curt Flood, Featured in
Ebony
's 50th Anniversary Issue, Battles Cancer,”
Jet
, 11/13/95, 51;
OT
, 2/15/96, B-2;
OT
, 2/16/96, B-2;
SFC
, 2/15/96, E3.

345 The union dipped: Marvin Miller interview; interview (anon.) by author.

346 The Baseball Assistance Team: Marvin Miller interview; Joe Garagiola interview.

346 In 1993, Rawlings:
USA Today
, 11/18/93, 2C;
SPD
, 11/19/93, 2D.

346 After Flood could no longer speak: Earl Robinson interview.

346 Marvin Miller: Marvin Miller interview.

346 He communicated:
USA Today
, 1/31/97, 2C; Lee, “The Curt Flood Story,”
Real Sports
, 3/10/97.

346 “mixed feelings”; “Start counting”; “Say this”: 1995 Christmas Card (on file with author);
NYT
, 1/21/87, B10.

347 “Curt's 9th Inning”: Funeral Program (on file with author);
LAT
, 1/28/97, B- 1;
SPD
, 1/28/97, 1C.

347 “My name is”; “I think I knew”; “Curt had a way”; “I've been sad”:
SPD
, 1/28/97, 1C.

347 Flood never forgot: Dick Moss interview.

347 In his eulogy, Will: George Will eulogy (on file with author).

347 “It was one of those”: George Will interview.

347 Jackson's voice rose; “Don't cry”; Jackson called: Lee, “The Curt Flood Story,”
Real Sports
, 3/10/97.

348 Leonard Koppett:
OT
, 12/14/94, B-2.

348 “You would think”:
NYT
, 3/3/05, D1.

348 Jackson also called for the Players Association: Lee, “The Curt Flood Story,”
Real Sports
, 3/10/97.

348 Joe Black, Orlando Cepeda: Funeral Program.

348 Both Black and Newcombe had carried:
NYT
, 10/28/72, 25.

348 Union reps David Cone:
NYP
, 1/21/97, 75.

349 “Baseball didn't change”:
SPD
, 1/28/97, 1C.

349 Players shift teams: Stark, “Part III: Player Movement Part of Life” (showing that in 1975 only 15 players had been playing for the same team for 10 consecutive years and in 2000 only 15 players had been playing for the same team for 10 consecutive years).

349 The average major league:
www.baseball-almanac.com/charts/salary/major_league_salaries.shtml
.

350 $18 million: Winfield's contract was originally thought to be worth $23 million or $24 million because of confusion over the cost-of-living increase in the deal. The contract, however, was ultimately worth $18 million.
NYT
, 5/17/90, B13.

350 “Sylvester Stallone”:
SPD
, 9/30/89, 3C. For a similar quote, see
OS
, 2/27/89, D5.

350 “If the owners”:
OT
, 6/5/94, B-9.

350 “We may not want”:
HC
, 10/25/05.

351 “What about freedom”:
OT
, 3/9/80, A-3.

351 “Republicans buy”: Smith,
Second Coming
, xix;
NYT
, 10/31/99, sec. 8, 3; Robert Lipsyte interview.

351 Of everything Flood had accomplished in baseball:
TW
, 3/15/93, B1.

351
Sport
magazine asked: “Flooding the Market,”
Sport
, 1/94, 12.

351 “I just want players”: Joe Torre interview.

351 “How can anybody”: Barkley,
I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
, 159.

351 In 1999,
Time
magazine: Okrent, “The 10 Most Influential Athletes of the Century,”
Time
, 6/14/99, 93.

Harry A. Blackmun Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

William J. Brennan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Harold H. Burton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Albert B. “Happy” Chandler Oral History Collection, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

William O. Douglas Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Abe Fortas Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

Arthur Goldberg Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Lyndon Johnson Papers and Oral History Collection, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas.

Hugo LaFayette Black Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Thurgood Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Marvin Miller Papers, New York University Library, New York, New York.

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Online, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

NAACP Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.