Curtis C. Flood

(1938-1997) lived in Omaha. Professional baseball player, known for his pioneering role in free agency for players when he challenged baseball's reserve clause in federal courts in 1969, which influenced club owners to agree to an arbitration system in December 1972 that allowed for creation of a collective bargaining process for major league ballplayers; played for St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s, setting major league records for consecutive chances and games by an outfielder without an error, and helping St. Louis win world championships in 1964 and 1967; played for Omaha Cardinals in the spring of 1958. Consult Omaha Sunday World Herald Magazine, May 18, 1958, p. G-7 and Curt Flood with Richard Carter, The Way It Is (Trident, 1971) and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 480-482 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 212-213.

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