BosTON, MA - MAY 01: Curt Flood #21 of the St. Louis Cardinals during an old timers baseball game before a game between the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox on May 1, 1989 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
There are two paths available for Curt Flood into the Baseball’s Hall of Fame. However, only one will likely get this Cardinal Legend there.
Curt Flood has always been a controversial figure in baseball. Primarily, because he challenged baseball’s reserve clause after the St. Louis Cardinals traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies in October 1969, in which he refused to accept.