![]() The legal battle started in 1969, when Flood rejected being traded. His battle to take control of his own career, rather than essentially being the property of a baseball team, transformed the game. Flood, despite a set of hard challenges, almost single-handedly ushered in the era of free agency in baseball by suing the league. Louis Cardinals, are not the reason he is remembered. But Flood’s numbers during his career from 1956 to 1971, all but two of them with the St. The center fielder made the All-Star team three times in his career, won seven consecutive Gold Gloves and had a lifetime batting average of. Looking forward to chatting soon.Curt Flood had a stellar career in Major League Baseball. Here’s a link the my website my bio and a description of our firm are below my signature. Given my baseball knowledge and extensive media contacts, and Minyon’s deep connections to civil rights leaders, we were wondering if you’d be interested in having a call with us some time to discuss the possibility of hiring our firm to launch a campaign to push for your dad’s Hall of Fame entry. I'm the Head of Sports PR at WPP’s Dewey Square Group in DC with an expertise in the intersection of sports and public policy, and my colleague, Minyon Moore, who heads up our firm’s Multicultural Strategies practice, forwarded me Bill Rhoden’s excellent piece on your quest to get your father in the Baseball Hall of Fame. ![]() Subject: Sports & Public Policy Strategist – connecting Please let me know if you have any questions and I’ll be happy to answer them. So if you could support the effort by making a donation and then sharing it with your network, we would greatly appreciate it. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, and his induction into the National Baseball Museum & Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, is long overdue. And one with woefully limited resources as something like this goes.Īs many of you know, my dad is enshrined in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, and the St. And, trust me, while I appreciate beyond measure hearing those supportive things-and would love to see my dad finally get the recognition he deserves-I'm just one individual. And who routinely remind me of my father’s on field play, his legacy and of the seismic impact his life, career, and the sacrifice has made on today’s stratospherically wealthy athletes labor rights (sports) and the way sports business, overall, is conducted. So you are aware, I have heard a lifetime of warm sentiments, and supporting arguments, from countless friends-including many of you-and complete strangers, alike. To help with the costs, I've created a "CurtFlood4Cooperstown GoFundMe campaign.Īs a career a strategic communications professional, I am certain a visibility, awareness, and lobbying campaign of this nature, will be the most vital component of a successful, multi-pronged and hard-hitting effort, if my father/his legacy is EVER to see the inside of Cooperstown and one which will necessitate the backing, support, and inclusion of notable former and active MLB, NBA, WNBA, and NFL players the Player's Associations, sports agents, politicians, sportswriters (sympathetic) labor and civil rights activists, and baseball fans, themselves. We anticipate the cost for a ten month program, to be $20,000 per month. Last week, and pursuant to the occasion, I received an invitation from Fred Frommer & Minyon Moore, of the DC-based communications & lobbyist firm, Dewey Square Group, to discuss a possible 'Curt Flood For Cooperstown' PR campaign (please see below). Supreme Court lawsuit against Major League Baseball, and his effort to become a free agent, during the period when baseball's Reserve Clause, contractually bound players to team ownership (in perpetuity) like property. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Flood v.
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