Excerpt from an interview with Curt Flood, former St. Louis Cardinals centerfielder, conducted for a documentary entitled "Black Champions." The full interview, he discusses his childhood in West Oakland, California, and the influences and events that led him to a career in professional sports, and his unsuccessful challenge to the reserve clause in Flood v. Kuhn, a lawsuit that was ultimately decided by the United States Supreme Court. The full interview is available on the AAPB website.
Black Champions: Interview with Curt Flood
On traveling through the Jim Crow south as the sole Black athlete on a baseball team.