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Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

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Curt Flood
Age: 59 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 18
Died: 1997
Died: January 20
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Curtis Charles Flood
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