An Economic Freedom Fighter - Curt Flood Curtis Charles Flood (January 18, 1938–January 20, 1997) was a Major League Baseball player who spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. A defensive standout, he led the National League in putouts four times and in fielding ...

Dred Scott in spikes, as George F. Will so memorably analogised Curt Flood, would have been seventy years old in January. With chemotherapy weakening him enough to lure fatal pneumonia, despite a 90 percent survival opportunity afforded him by his doctors, the man who led baseball’s reserve cl...