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Got me a 42 Brooklyn Dodgers ball cap yesterday. There ought be a Curt Flood cap to buy.

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Big Amoco Sign wrote:
JoeMcKim wrote:
Fat Strat wrote:
JoeMcKim wrote:The Curt Flood story would really make for a good baseball movie. Could do it in the Moneyball style of where it involves baseball but i mostly what takes place behind the scenes of MLB.
I agree. Would be a great period piece.
I think that all of the old owners that Curt pissed off back then are all gone and dead so it shouldn't be any reason for them not allowing them to use MLB licensed names and uniforms in the movie at this point in time. Chadwick Boseman would be great for this role but since he's already played Jackie Robinson probably would have to look for a different actor in the lead role. What about his Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan?
Or a new up and coming actor. I think a movie like that might be better in the hands of indie, dialogue driven guys instead of the big budget popcorn producer types.
Now I'm wondering what a Michael Bay baseball movie would be like and what creative ways he would find to fill the movie with unnecessary explosions and such.

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clearly curt flood should be played by...tom cruise

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If I ever spring for a Cards jersey it will have Flood 21 on the back.

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Jocephus wrote:clearly curt flood should be played by...tom cruise
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tlombard wrote:Now I'm wondering what a Michael Bay baseball movie would be like and what creative ways he would find to fill the movie with unnecessary explosions and such.
That's basically just the ending to The Natural

If the explosion:baseball ratio is still too low, he could always adapt this scene from Cowboy Bebop.

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Curt Flood sacrificed himself and his career because he saw an injustice.

He was reviled and subjected to ridicule.

Mostly, he didn't want to play for the Phillies. But, still...

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But seriously. Curt's stand and subsequent fall was something I remember quite vividly.

I was only 8 when it started. But, in the years following the court case, I tried to follow him. His attempted comeback in '71 with the Senators, I still have a few baseball cards from that year.

My sister was going to SLU's Madrid program in '72. She would write about how Curt was living in Majorca and painting pictures.

Read his autobiography while in High School:

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He was a hero to me and wasn't on any stamp I can think of.

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Big Amoco Sign wrote:
JoeMcKim wrote:
Fat Strat wrote:
JoeMcKim wrote:The Curt Flood story would really make for a good baseball movie. Could do it in the Moneyball style of where it involves baseball but i mostly what takes place behind the scenes of MLB.
I agree. Would be a great period piece.
I think that all of the old owners that Curt pissed off back then are all gone and dead so it shouldn't be any reason for them not allowing them to use MLB licensed names and uniforms in the movie at this point in time. Chadwick Boseman would be great for this role but since he's already played Jackie Robinson probably would have to look for a different actor in the lead role. What about his Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan?
Or a new up and coming actor. I think a movie like that might be better in the hands of indie, dialogue driven guys instead of the big budget popcorn producer types.
Boseman was pretty unknown when he was cast in 42 since before that all he really did was a bit role at the end of The Express.

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Lawmakers push for Curt Flood's enshrinement in Hall of Fame
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WASHINGTON -- Curt Flood's widow has a simple explanation for why her late husband, who is revered by players for sacrificing his career to advocate for free agency, has not been enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame.

"I think the holdup is that he got on a lot of people's nerves," Judy Pace Flood said.

Flood has some powerful advocates on his side.

Members of Congress sent a letter to the Hall of Fame on Thursday asking that Flood be elected in December by the next Golden Days committee. The recognition would coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Flood's defiant letter to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in which he wrote, "I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes."

"What Curt Flood did and championed is resonating throughout professional sports for the past 50 years," Rep. David Trone, a Maryland Democrat who is leading the push for Flood's enshrinement, said at a news conference.

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