"It was so difficult for the fans to……" — Curt Flood

"It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball."

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26 Quotes by Curt Flood

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Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.
A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the…
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their…
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse…
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was…
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white…

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