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Curt Flood in the Media : Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete /
Curt Flood in the Media examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood (1938-1997), the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. At the time, all Major League Baseball players were subject to the reserve cla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Race, rhetoric, and media series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Curt Flood in the Media examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood (1938-1997), the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. At the time, all Major League Baseball players were subject to the reserve clause, which essentially bound a player to work in perpetuity for his original team, unless traded for another player or sold for cash, in which case he worked under the same reserve conditions for the next team. Flood refused the trade on a matter of principle, arguing that Major League Baseball had v. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781617031397 1617031399 1621032566 9781621032564 1283629682 9781283629683 9786613942135 6613942138 |