Remembering the great — and courageous — Curt Flood

Recommended reading: Bryan Burwell’s piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the shameful failure of baseball and the Cardinals to honor the memory of Curt Flood at Tuesday’s All-Star game.

Flood, a great center fielder on two championship Cardinal teams, essentially sacrificed the later part of his career to take on the injustice of baseball’s reserve clause, which basically made players indentured servants.

Naturally, today’s generation of players has little or no knowledge or appreciation of what Flood accomplished decades ago, or what it cost him. Burwell’s column should be required reading in every major league clubhouse.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/bryanburwell/story/F0DB58578CBBAFA4862575F40015AA95?OpenDocument