Curt flood biography hbo specials

It’s been a long time since a television program had the kind of impact on me that the recent Curt Flood documentary from HBO would elicit.

Watching “The Curious Case of Curt Flood” last week just blew me away, in part because he had always been one of my favorite players when I was a teenager, but more precisely because of an odd addendum to his tragic story of having taken on the Major League Baseball establishment and then been quite brutally squashed and shoved aside for his efforts.

If you haven’t seen the amazing documentary, I would urge you to do so.

I had, of course, read much about Flood’s historic challenge to baseball’s infamous “Reserve Clause” starting in 1969, and as a student of baseball history understood much about the importance of what he had done and the horrible, almost Shakespearean price that he paid in doing it.

The story is told so well and so passionately that it resonated with me once again to a rema