by Brad Snyder
Arnold & Porter
Ashe, Arthur
Aspromonte, Bob
Aunts and Uncles
Baldwin, James
Ball Four (Bouton)
Banks, Ernie: Goldberg as fan of; stance on Flood lawsuit; support for Flood
Barcelona
Baseball Assistance Team (BAT)
Baseball (documentary)
Baseball Encyclopedia, The
Baseball Network
baseball writers: criticisms of Flood; endorsements of Flood; reaction to Supreme Court decision
Baseball Writers’ Association annual dinner (): New York; Washington chapter
Basic Agreements:
Bercovich, Sam; attempts to help Flood ; portrait of; purchase of A’s radio rights
Bill Erwin American Legion team
Birmingham church bombing
Black, Hugo; legacy of; resignation of
Black, Joe: Cardinals treatment of; as pallbearer at Flood’s funeral
blacklisting
black militancy
Blackmun, Harry: announcement of decision ; as baseball fan; on baseball losing antitrust exemption; cert petition vote; criticism of Congress ; decisions after Flood; draft opinion; Flood case as favorite opinion; friendship with Burger; name games ; position on bench; preargument notes; reactions to Flood opinion; reading of predictions; Roe . Wade opinion ; selection to write Flood opinion ; “sentimental journey,”; view of Flood case
Black Panthers
black sportswriters
Blefary, Curt
Blue, Vida: A’s attempt to sell; contract dispute; on Flood’s value to team
Bonsal, Dudley B.
Bosman, Dick
Boston Red Sox “Impossible Dream” season
Bouton, Jim; at Baseball Writers’ Association annual dinner (); Kuhn’s crusade against; at labor negotiation session
Boyer, Ken
Brand, Ron; attempt to educate players; support for Flood’s lawsuit
Brandeis, Louis
Brecher, Karen
Brennan, William; cert petition vote; disgust felt for Goldberg; embarrassment felt for Goldberg; friendship with Goldberg; friendship with Marshall; on importance of oral arguments; joining of dissent; position on bench; questioning of Goldberg; role on Warren Court ; view of Flood case
Breslin, Jimmy
Brethren, The (Woodward & Scott)
Breyer, Stephen
Brinkman, Eddie
Brock, Lou; on Flood’s comeback; as pallbearer at Flood’s funeral; support for Flood lawsuit
Broeg, Bob: criticisms of Flood; fan agreement with; Grimes’s appeal not to write negative article; reaction to Supreme Court decision; reaction to The Way It Is
Brooklyn Dodgers: as potential trial witnesses ; trade of Jackie Robinson to Giants
Brosnan, Jim; free agent ad in Sports Illustrated; support offered to Flood at trial
Brown, Jim; comparison of Flood to ; Cosell’s relationship with
Brown case
Brown . Board of Education; Powell’s opposition to; Rehnquist’s embracing of; Thurgood Marshall’s argument in
Bunning, Jim; on player support for reserve clause lawsuit; questioning of Flood atMLBPA meeting
Burger, Warren; addressing Goldberg; alterations to bench; cert petition vote ; as chief justice; at conference; conference process; discussion of cases with Nixon; effort to preserve Goldberg’s dignity; friendship with Blackmun; meeting with Kuhn (); position on bench; reduction in oral argument time; Reed’s letter to ; siding with Blackmun’s opinion ; view of Flood case; Washington cocktail party circuit
Burnes, Bob
Burns, Ken
Busch, August “Gussie” (Cardinals owner) ; defense of; Flood’s portrait of; hiring of Solly Hemus ; ignorance of spring training segregation; order to trade Carlton; portrayal in The Way It Is; publication of spring training speech; reaction to Flood lawsuit; reaction to MLBPA resolution to treat black players like “first class citizens,”; reception of Flood (); as target of Flood’s lawsuit
Campanella, Roy
Campanis, Al
Campbell, Clarence
cancer diagnosis
Cannon, Robert
Caray, Harry
Cardozo, Benjamin
Carew, Rod
Carlos, John
Carlton, Steve
Carolina League; beanballs; brushback pitches; fan insults ; Flood’s describing as peckerwood league
Carpenter, Bob (Phillies owner)
Carroll, Louis; attempt to delay trial ; death of; at labor negotiation session; reaction to lawsuit; relinquishment of duties; as “The Wise Man,”
Carter, John
Carter, Richard
“Casey at the Bat” (Thayer)
Catcher Was a Spy, The (Dawidoff) caveat emptor rule
CBS: dismissal of case against; as named defendant in lawsuit
Cepeda, Orlando; as pallbearer at Flood’s funeral; Veeck’s hiring of
cert petitions
Chamber of Commerce breakfast
Chandler, Happy
Chapman, Ben (Phillies manager)
Chase, Hal
child support
Cincinnati Reds: attempt to make Flood third baseman; call up by; minor league High Point team; signing of Flood ; signing of West Oakland players; spring training (); trade of Flood to Cardinals
Civil Rights Act of
civil rights movement; Jackie Robinson’s involvement in; support from groups in
Clark, John
Clark, Ramsey
Clay, Cassius. See also Ali, Muhammad
Clemente, Roberto; effect of reserve clause on; respect for
Clendenon, Donn
Clinton, Bill
Cobb, Ty
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr.
comebacks
commissioner of baseball: Bowie Kuhn. See Kuhn, Bowie; Flood’s letter to; Ford Frick; Kenesaw Mountain Landis ; Peter Ueberroth; William Eckert
conference process, Supreme Court
Connor, Eugene “Bull,”
Cooper, Irving Ben ( Judge); baseball analogies; trial; decision in Flood case; decision to grant early trial; decision to ignore Supreme Court precedents; denial of request for preliminary injunction; dismissal of case against Anheuser-Busch and CBS; fawning over players ; praise for attorneys; praise for testimony of Pete Rozelle; preliminary injunction hearing; quoted in Blackmun’s opinion; receipt of Jackie Robinson’s autograph; ruling on owners’ motion to dismiss; view of reserve clause
CopenhagenSee Denmark.
CORE
Cosell, Howard: appearance on Dick Cavett Show; at trial; Flood and Miller interview; Flood interview ; Joe Cronin interview; at opening press conference of Senior Professional Baseball Association (SPBA) ; opinion of Kuhn; on reserve clause ; support for Flood; Tommie Smith interview; on union giving Flood a job
Court of Appeals for Second Circuit: denial of appeal by; granting of request for expedited review of case; Salerno case
critics of reserve clause
Cronin, Joe; at Baseball Writers’ Association annual dinner (); at trial; as named defendant in lawsuit; sale to Red Sox; umpire lawsuit against; Yastrzemski as “yo-yo” of
Crowe, George
Cullen, Tim
Curt Flood Act of
Curt Flood & Associates, Inc.; demise of ; lawsuits against
Curt Flood Photo Studio
Curt Flood Portraits
Curt Flood rule
Curt Flood Studios, Inc.
Curt Flood Youth Foundation
Daniels, Bennie
Dawidoff, Nicholas
Denmark Dershowitz, Alan
Devine, Bing (Cardinals GM); invitation as guest of honor to Flood; receipt of response to Flood’s letter; salary negotiations with Flood () ; on segregated spring training facilities; testimony at trial; trade of Carlton
DeWitt, Bill
DiMaggio, Joe; criticism of Flood; reaction to Supreme Court decision
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bsp; Doby, Larry
Doubleday, Abner
Douglas, William; criticism of Congress; draft dissent; friendship with Goldberg; position on bench; questioning of Goldberg; view of Flood case
Drabowsky, Moe
draft picks, trading of
Eckert, William
Edwards, Harry
Eisenhower, Dwight .
Epstein, Mike
Equal Justice: The Warren Era of the Supreme Court (Goldberg)
Escobedo . Illinois
Eskridge, William
Evers, Medgar
“Famous Artists School,”
farm system: Branch Rickey’s popularization of ; Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s crusade against
Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. . National League of Professional Baseball Clubs ; basis of; Flood’s Supreme Court brief attacking; as “impotent zombie,”; Judge Friendly opinion on ; Justice Blackmun’s interpretation of ; Justice Douglas’s interpretation of; lower courts’ struggles to interpret; reaffirmation through Toolson case. See Toolson . New York Yankees; Salerno case as challenge to; Supreme Court’s abandonment of limited definition of interstate commerce under; Toolson case. See Toolson . New York Yankees
Feeney, Chub: at Baseball Writers’ Association annual dinner (); at trial ; at labor negotiation session; as named defendant in lawsuit; press release regarding lawsuit; role in election of Kuhn
Fehr, Donald: honor of Miller; knowledge of Flood; opinion of Flood
Feller, Bob; clash with Jackie Robinson ; criticism of Flood; offer to buy Flood’s World Series rings
Feller, David
Ferrell, Rick
Finley, Charlie; opinion of Kuhn ; response to Brosnan’s free agent ad
Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin)
Flood, Barbara (sister)
Flood, Beverly (wife); alimony and child support owed to; lawsuit against Curt
Flood, Carl (brother); childhood legal problems; lack of pride; legal problems; love of drawing; minor league contract offer; representation by Allan H. Zerman; as semi-pro pitcher
Flood, Curt: abandonment of children; ABC Superstars competition; absence from Supreme Court oral argument ; absence of active players at funeral of ; address to MLBPA meeting in San Juan (); alcoholism. See subhead: drinking by; alcohol treatment; alienation of Cardinal Nation; alimony and child support; allies of; All-Star selections; in Andorra; appearance on Dick Cavett Show; arrest of; artistic side; as A’s color commentator; association with Bill Erwin American Legion team; attempts to explain lawsuit ; August Busch portrait; as author; awards as Cardinal center fielder ; as “bad boy,”; in Barcelona ; as bartender; Baseball Network president; at Baseball premiere; as “Baseball’s Best Centerfielder,”; baseball withdrawal; at Baseball Writers’ Association annual dinner (); bat speed; batting cage performances ; beanballs; benching of ; besting of Kuhn in media relations ; Beverly (wife); Beverly’s lawsuit against; biggest disappointment of trial; birth of; blacklisting of ; at Black Panther meeting ; black players’ criticisms of; black wreath incident; breakup with Karen Brecher; brushback pitches; call up by Reds; as Carolina League player of the year; change in demeanor; charges that he was Miller’s puppet; childhood of rights groups support for rights movement and ; as co-captain of Cardinals; collaboration with Richard Carter; comeback in life; comeback with Senators; commitment to comeback; Copenhagen as sanctuary ; Cosell interview; Cosell’s relationship with; country’s loss of interest in; credentials of; criticism oflabor agreement ; criticisms from players; cross-examination of; as Cutty Sark Leader of; death of; decision to go ahead with lawsuit; decision to retire; decision to sue MLB ; in Denmark ; desire to reach $salary; desire to work in baseball; difficulty remembering facts on witness stand; direct examination of; disappearing act; discovery of reserve clause; dislike for Solly Hemus ; divorce settlement; drinking by ; early attraction to baseball; Ebony editorial on; economic revolution started by; effect of lawsuit on; effect of racism on; effect of segregation and discrimination on ; emotional breakdown; end of friendship with Marian Jorgensen; error in World Series; escape to Barcelona ; eulogies for; exclusion from Hi-Toms team party; exclusion from Chamber of Commerce breakfast; experience with southern racism ; exploration of options prior to lawsuit ; fan insults; fear of dark; as featured commentator in Baseball documentary; fielding problems ; final years in Europe; financial condition ; first batting cage outing ; first major league hit; first trade of ; at Frank Robinson’s Hall of Fame induction; fringe player’s supporting; game against Jackie Robinson; Gildea interview ; goals forseason; Gold Glove Award; as guest of honor of Cardinals; Hall of Fame votes; hate mail; High Point- Thomasville team; historical place of ; hitting struggles; honors and tributes bestowed upon; housing ordeal (Alamo, CA); ignorance of southern racism; impact of actions of; infidelity; influence of George Powles on; influence of Jackie Robinson on; influence of mother on; influence of Sam Bercovich on; initial meeting with Marvin Miller; inner strength; insertion as starting center fielder; insomnia; integration of white Bay Area neighborhood ; interests of; interview for Cardinals director of player development; interviews granted ; IRS problems ; Jackie Robinson’s admiration for; Jacober interview; Jet magazine cover; on Judge Cooper’s decision; Judy Pace (girlfriend);
Flood, Curt (cont.) Judy Pace (wife); knockdown pitches ; on lack of blacks in management ; on lawsuit; as leader of Cardinals; leave from Senators; legacy of; legal problems; leisure time during trial; letter to commissioner; life without baseball ; loan request from Goldberg ; as local celebrity; loneliness of; as loner during Senators spring training; on loss of case; love of drawing; in Madrid; in Majorca ; management’s attacks on ; marriage difficulties; media attention; media portrayal of; meetings with John Quinn ; meeting with Allan H. Zerman ; meeting with Arthur Goldberg; meeting with Cassius Clay; meeting with Kuhn at Yankee game; meeting with President Clinton; meeting with Short (Senators owner); meeting with Ueberroth and Edwards; minor leagues; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission file on; modern players’ knowledge of; motivation of; move to Alamo, California; move to Pomona, Californiastatistics statistics; onplayers’ strike; at Oakland Tech; offer of role in Spanish Western film; offer to play for Senators ; old-timers games; as “one of ten most influential athletes of century,”; Opening Day (); opinion of Joe Garagiola; opinion of John Quinn; opinion of Philadelphia; opinion of testimony at trial; outburst at William Gildea; as pariah in Cardinals organization; as part-time sportscaster in Majorca; in party scene; personality traits; physical decline; physical stature; as pinch hitter and platoon player; player acknowledgment of sacrifice by; player reaction to signing with Senators; players at funeral of; on players benefiting from lawsuit ; players’ reaction to; players traded by Cardinals to acquire; playing in Jim Crow South; playing in Venezuela; playing time under Johnny Keane; playing time under Solly Hemus; pledge to repay MLBPA legal fees; portrait painting. See portrait painting; portrayal of Hemus; position in Senators’ Opening Day lineup ; as president of Aunts and Uncles; press conference on end of career; pressures on ; price paid by; pride of ; private hotel rooms; problems with Ted Williams; promise to fight to the finish; publication of Busch’s spring training speech; public disclosure of lawsuit; public profile; question about painting skills; questioning of atMLBPA meeting ; Rayman interview; reaction to denial of appeal by Appellate Court; reaction to Jackie Robinson’s endorsement of ; reaction to southern racism; reaction to spring training segregation; reaction to Supreme Court decision ; reaction to trade; reason for signing with Senators; reason for suing baseball ; receipt of Jackie Robinson Sports Award; receipt of pension money; receipt of response to letter by; reception by Cardinals (); reception by striking players in; Reds’ minor league High Point team; refusal to be bought; refusal to declare bankruptcy; refusal to discuss Cardinals; refusal to meet with Kuhn ; relationships with children; relationship with Bob Gibson; relationship with Carl (brother); relationship with Frank Robinson; relationship with Johnny Keane; relationship wit
h Karen Brecher; relationship with Marian Jorgensen; relationship with Miller; relationship with Oscar Brown Jr.; as “Rembrandt,”; request for early severance payment; respect for Arthur Goldberg; respect for Martin Luther King Jr.; on restricted list; retirement announcement; retirement threats; return of World Series rings ; return to America (); return to America (); reunion with Moss, ; revelations to Epstein; role in United Baseball League; Rustic Inn ; salaries of; sale of World Series rings; Salerno case effect on; Sally League; search for; seizures; self-education; Senators press conference; Senior Professional Baseball Association (SPBA) commissioner; signing with Reds ; signing with Senators; similarities to Jackie Robinson; singles hitter; on skyrocketing salaries; sobriety; soliciting funds for youth baseball; speech to NAACP Southeast Regional Conference; as spokesman for desegregation; Sport magazine article ; Sports Illustrated excerpt of The Way It Is ; sportswriters criticisms and support for ; spring training (); spring training (); spring training (); standing ovation; State Department search for; success in Carolina League; as supporter of employee rights; support for ; support for player strikes; support from non-baseball players; Supreme Court brief; as talk of sports world; tax evasion; telegram to Short; testimony missed at trial; testimony of; as third baseman; third baseman experiment; throat cancer; time at Carter’s home ; time in Douglas, Georgia; Tim McCarver as guinea pig to; trade to Philadelphia; treatment by Cardinals; underestimations of; understanding of lack of support; unemployment; unfair treatment by Williams; uniform number; uniform number; urge to help future players; as victim of quota system; in Washington social scene; “well-paid slave” comment; well wishes from Mets fans; White interview; Whiteside interview; “Why Am Challenging Baseball” article; womanizing; World Series championships; World Series error; Youth America Baseball program commissioner
Flood, Curtis, Jr. (son)
Flood, Debbie (daughter)
Flood, Herman, Jr.
Flood, Herman (father)
Flood, Laura (mother) Flood, Scott (son)
Flood, Shelly (daughter)
Flood . Bowie K. Kuhn, et al.: Appellate Court hearing. See Court of Appeals for Second Circuit; trial. See trial; effect of; exhibits accompanying; fan reaction to; filing of; as lapse in Court’s judgment; media reaction to; MLBPA support for; newspaper coverage; predictions of demise of game; support for; Supreme Court decision process; Supreme Court oral argument