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Justice Sotomayor Takes Swing At Famed Baseball Case
Enlarge image i Bill Kostroun / AP Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's wicked, waggish sense of humor—and knowledge of baseball—were on full display Wednesday when she presided over a reenactment of Flood v. Kuhn, the 1972 case that unsuccessfully ch 5/23/13 from NPR Read more »
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Weiner: The Supreme Court Judge and the Curt Flood Case reenactment
Shades of Hairspray!...“It was a time of tradition, a time of values, and a time…to shake things up.” For a journalist, chance encounters at a restaurant or a hair salon can become a major opportunity for advancing a story and in some instances the journ from Baseball Think Factory Read more »
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Cardinals honored at Mo. Sports Hall of Fame
The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that Roger Maris and Curt Flood were inducted Thursday in Springfield, along with scout Tom Greenwade. Another Cardinals star from the era, Mike Shannon, was honored as the 26th Missouri Sports Legend with a bust at the from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »
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Biggest 'What Ifs' That Would Have Changed the Course of Baseball History
What Happened: Sure, it's a bit of a cliche, but it's just wrong to ignore or overlook the possibility of what would have happened had the Boston Red Sox not traded George Herman "Babe" Ruth (pictured) to the New York Yankees. You're familiar with this, from Bleacher Report Read more »
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Corner: The Reserve Clause
In 1969, Major League Baseball player Curt Flood refused to accept a trade. He spent a season away from the game in a challenge to the reserve clause. Flood's example ultimately created free agency in American professional sports. Prior to Flood's move a from US Soccer Players Read more »