What do we give up as people for what we stand for? That is the question Curtis Charles Flood must have asked himself a lot during his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
To this day, I feel that Curt Flood‘s plight about what a person stands for. Even with technology and social networking, has a view of a person who does not fit in changed since Flood’s time?
What was Flood trying to tell St. Louis Cardinals management, MLB, and other teams management in his time? While Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier in the majors over 20 years prior, there were still plenty of issues with the way players were treated, and while these rules were written to bind all players, this particular treatment felt especially resonant towards African-Americans.