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  • A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1940
    • A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1940
    Zeke Bonura with the Giants in 1939 | Getty Images Another slow year for Cubs deals. The Cubs finished 75-79 in 1940. It was their first losing season in 15 years, truly the end of an era. Even so, the team did muddle around .500 for a while, but were never really anywhere near contention, as the Reds won 100 games that year. And so the Cubs didn’t make many changes. As has been the case w...2024
  • Max Fried, Marcell Ozuna and Chris Sale are each finalists for 2024 Players Choice Awards
    • Max Fried, Marcell Ozuna and Chris Sale are each finalists for 2024 Players Choice Awards
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The winners of each award will be announced ahead of Game 2 of this year’s World Series The finalists for the MLBPA’s 2024 Players Choice Awards have been released by the MLBPA and the Atlanta Braves will have three players in the running to take home some hardware here in the offseason. Max Fried is a finalist for the Marvin Miller Man o...2024
  • Baseball history unpacked, September 18
    • Baseball history unpacked, September 18
    Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg, and other stories. Klaatu barada nikto. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to fo...2024
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  • Baseball history unpacked, August 12
    • Baseball history unpacked, August 12
    Happ-y Birthday! | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ian’s Happ-y birthday, Curt Flood loses, and other stories. The strike is ON. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty ...2024
  • Kansas City baseball trivia
    • Kansas City baseball trivia
    Courtesy of Charlie O. Finley. A few weeks ago, I explored some of the strange things that have happened in Major League history. This week, we look at some of the oddball occurrences surrounding the history of Kansas City baseball. Before the Athletics moved to Kansas City, owner Connie Mack had his eye on a pitching prospect named Lou Brissie. Mack and Brissie reached an agreement that Brissie w...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: Paul Waner records his 3,000th career hit
    • This Day in Braves History: Paul Waner records his 3,000th career hit
    Braves Franchise History 1942 - Paul Waner records his 3,000th career hit but Boston falls to Pittsburgh 7-6 in 11 innings. 2016 - Julio Teheran tosses a one-hitter as the Braves beat the Mets 6-0 to complete a three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field. Michael Conforto’s single in the third inning is the only baserunner for New York. Freddie Freeman matched a career-high with four hits for Atla...2024

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  • • Baseball history unpacked, September 18
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  • Baseball history unpacked, June 19
    • Baseball history unpacked, June 19
    Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Blake Parker! Carl Erskine no-hits the Cubs and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on all-time RBI list
    • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on all-time RBI list
    Photo by Marc Serota/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1944 - Jim Tobin homers and tosses a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1971 - Hank Aaron launches his 600th career home run off Gaylord Perry in a 6-5 loss to the Giants at Fulton County Stadium. Aaron joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league players with at least 600 home runs. 2011 - Chipper Jone...2024
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  • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
    • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
    Our only alumni The Royals have made some significant moves this spring, inducting Bo Jackson, John Schuerholz and Cedric Tallis into the team’s Hall of Fame. Now that Tallis has been inducted, I’ll need to find a new windmill to tilt at. Bringing attention to the Tallis oversight has been one of my main passions the last five years and I’m very happy for the Tallis family to see this long-overdu...2024
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on RBI list
    Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1944 - Jim Tobin homers and tosses a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1971 - Hank Aaron launches his 600th career home run off Gaylord Perry in a 6-5 loss to the Giants at Fulton County Stadium. Aaron joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league players with at least 600 home runs. 2011 - Chipper...2023
  • • Baseball history unpacked, January 20
    Geovany Soto, still a hit. | Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Important players pass, MLB.com, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and vari...2023
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Room Service Pennant Race Awaits Red Sox in AL East
    2016

Curt Flood lifestyle

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Timeline

  • 2024
    "Run-scoring hits by Mike Shannon and Curt Flood at Candlestick Park down the Giants, 2-0."

  • 2023
    "1971 - Curt Flood leaves the Washington Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark, ending his playing career."

  • 2022
    "I don’t actually need to sleuth the date of this game, because it’s right in this tweet, which is where I found the photo: Curt Flood makes a leaping catch into the Ivy at Wrigley Field, September 18, 1962."

  • 2021
    "Curt Flood took a stand against baseball’s entrenched powers."

  • 2020
    "Members of Congress are asking baseball's Hall of Fame to elect Curt Flood."

  • 2019
    "They are not working through the courts as the likes of Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson did several decades ago, but through their newfound ability to engage directly with the fans, who are almost always going to take their side over that of a coach or a faceless executive."

  • 2017
    "There's likely no one in Cardinals history with a legacy more complex than Curt Flood, who sacrificed his standout career for a greater good from which he never personally benefited."

  • 2016
    "Marvin Miller did that, Curt Flood, from on up."

  • 2015
    "Simmons, George Kissell, Curt Flood and Bob Forsch were all inducted into the Cardinals' Hall of Fame on Saturday."

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Curt Flood trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Kansas City baseball trivia
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  • This Day in Braves History: Julio Franco becomes oldest player with a pinch-hit home run
    • This Day in Braves History: Julio Franco becomes oldest player with a pinch-hit home run
    Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1981 - Terry Harper leads off the game with a single before Pirates pitcher Jim Bibby retires the next 27 batters in order. Atlanta falls 5-0 with Phil Niekro taking the loss. 2004 - Julio Franco breaks his own record as the oldest player in major league history to hit a pinch-hit home run. Franco’s homer tied the game in the eig...2024
  • • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
    2024
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  • This Day in MLB History: January 16
    • This Day in MLB History: January 16
    MLB History 1886 - The Washington Nationals are admitted to the National League, bringing the league total to seven teams. 1891 - A new national agreement was signed by the National League, American Association and the Western Association. The agreement creates a three-man panel to settle problems among the leagues. 1964 - American League owners vote down Charlie Finley’s proposed move of the Ka...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: December 29th
    • This Day in Braves History: December 29th
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1932 - Shanty Hogan, who started his career with the Boston Braves, is purchased by the Braves after five years as the regular catcher for the New York Giants. Boston pays $25,000 for Hogan, who will finish his career with a .295 batting average. 1938 - The Boston Bees acquire Al Simmons from the Senators for $3,000. MLB Histo...2023
  • Baseball history unpacked, December 29
    • Baseball history unpacked, December 29
    Happy birthday to Cub Kevin Hart! | Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Kevin Hart and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various...2023
  • This Day in Braves History: Milwaukee signs Rico Carty
    • This Day in Braves History: Milwaukee signs Rico Carty
    Braves Franchise History 1959 - The Milwaukee Braves sign 20-year old Rico Carty out of the Dominican Republic. MLB History 1967 - Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg suffers torn ligaments in his left knee while skiing at Lake Tahoe. Lonborg won the Cy Young Award with a 22-9 record, 3.49 ERA and 246 strikeouts in 1967. Lonborg will pitch 12 more seasons in the majors, but won’t reach double digits in w...2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Milwaukee signs Rico Carey
    • This Day in Braves History: Milwaukee signs Rico Carey
    Braves Franchise History 1959 - The Milwaukee Braves sign 20-year old Rico Carty out of the Dominican Republic. MLB History 1967 - Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg suffers torn ligaments in his left knee while skiing at Lake Tahoe. Lonborg won the Cy Young Award with a 22-9 record, 3.49 ERA and 246 strikeouts in 1967. Lonborg will pitch 12 more seasons in the majors, but won’t reach double digits in w...2023
  • • This Day in Braves History: Julio Franco becomes the oldest player to hit a pinch-hit home run
    Photo by SPX/Ron Vesely Photography via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1981 - Terry Harper leads off the game with a single before Pirates pitcher Jim Bibby retires the next 27 batters in order. Atlanta falls 5-0 with Phil Niekro taking the loss. 2004 - Julio Franco breaks his own record as the oldest player in major league history to hit a pinch-hit home run. Franco’s homer ties t...2023
  • • Baseball history unpacked, May 19
    Crime Dog bites the ball | Photo by SPX/Ron Vesely Photography via Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Cy’s 500th, the Farrell brothers go yard, and the reserve clause is challenged, plus other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric loo...2023
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Curt Flood stats and results

  • • Baseball history unpacked, June 19
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  • • This Day in MLB History: January 16
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, May 19
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, January 20
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  • • Looking Ahead: SSS HOF ballots
    Among many huge BBWAA goofs on our upcoming Veterans’ ballot: Kenny Lofton earning just 3.2% HOF support in his only year of consideration. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post our Veterans and Cooperstown ballots South Side Sox had a history of holding Hall of Fame votes in the 2010s, long before the new management came in and sorta blew the voting wide open. Things expanded right a...2023
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Room Service Pennant Race Awaits Red Sox in AL East
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Curt Flood parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on all-time RBI list
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  • • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, May 19
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on RBI list
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Room Service Pennant Race Awaits Red Sox in AL East
    2016
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  • • Mike Trout Comments on Bat Flips After Bryce Harper, Goose Gossage Remarks
    2016
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  • • Flood's children push his legacy forward
    The records and contributions of the father of free agency, Curt Flood, thrive through the lives of the family that survives him....2015

Top Curt Flood news

  • • Lawmakers push for Flood's enshrinement in HOF
    Members of Congress are asking baseball's Hall of Fame to elect Curt Flood. Flood sacrificed his career to advocate for free agency....2020
  • • This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones passes Mickey Mantle on RBI list
    2023
    Continue with Chipper Jones
  • • Wrigley Field history: Curt Flood makes a catch
    There are a lot of interesting things that flowed from this game. I don’t actually need to sleuth the date of this game, because it’s right in this tweet, which is where I found the photo: Curt Flood makes a leaping catch into the Ivy at Wrigley Field, September 18, 1962. pic.twitter.com/emm9YmUZiB— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 6, 2022 In fact, it’s impossible for me to tell you...2022
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  • • Curt Flood Made Free Agency Possible for Other Pro Athletes
    Curt Flood took a stand against baseball’s entrenched powers. His defiance cost him everything — and changed everything....2021
  • • Baseball history unpacked, October 7
    Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday Adrian Sampson. I still hate the Padres and Steve Garvey. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narra...2022
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  • • Congress members push for Curt Flood to be inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
    Over 100 different lawmakers have signed the letter petitioning for Flood to be in the Hall of Fame...2020
  • • Red jacket means much to new Cards Hall of Famer
    Ted Simmons will never forget the feeling of putting on the St. Louis Cardinals red Hall of Fame jacket. Simmons, George Kissell, Curt Flood and Bob Forsch were all inducted into the Cardinals' Hall of Fame on Saturday....2015
  • • Red jacket means much to new Cards Hall of Famer
    Ted Simmons will never forget the feeling of putting on the St. Louis Cardinals red Hall of Fame jacket. Simmons, George Kissell, Curt Flood and Bob Forsch were all inducted into the Cardinals' Hall of Fame on Saturday....2015

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  • • Baseball history unpacked, August 12
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  • • Kansas City baseball trivia
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  • • It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
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  • • Rays to host screening of documentary film ‘After Jackie’ at Tampa Theater on February 2
    To kickoff Black History Month, the Rays are screening the film After Jackie on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. at the Tampa Theatre. The Tampa Bay Rays are sponsoring a free community screening of the UNINTERRUPTED film, After Jackie, at Tampa Theatre on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m. Released in 2022, during the 75th anniversary year of Jackie Robinson becoming the first Black player allowed to ...2023
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  • • Wrigley Field history: Curt Flood makes a catch
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, August 12
    Happy birthday, Ian Happ | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. This one might be worth keeping around. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives...2022
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Room Service Pennant Race Awaits Red Sox in AL East
    2016
    Visit the page Scott Miller
  • • Mike Trout Comments on Bat Flips After Bryce Harper, Goose Gossage Remarks
    2016
    See also Mike Trout
  • • Goose Gossage Comments on Bryce Harper, State of MLB
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