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Baseball regards us as sheep.
Curt Flood / Baseball Player
Baseball
Regards
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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
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Baseball
Establishment
Permissive
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I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
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Jobs
Fame
Shot
Hall
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Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
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Baseball
Rebellion
Relevant
Socially
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It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
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Baseball
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I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
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Goods
Property
I Am Human Human Being
Being
Am
Human
Human Being
I Am Human Being
Piece
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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
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Tragedy
Life My Life People
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I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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Traded
Wondered
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But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
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League
Major League
Ballplayer
Major
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
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Destroyed
Great American
Hated
Detestable
Sport
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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Baseball
Lying
Teammates
Worse
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I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
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Injustice
Sensitive
Recent
Recent Years
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I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.
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Leaving
God Time World
Organizations
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Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
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Pastime
Treatment
Apart
Existed
Institutionalized
Lend
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All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
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Court
Decided
Supreme
Supreme Court
Waiting
Work Me People
Work Waiting Me
Grand
Laid
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Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood / Baseball Player
Baseball
Cardinals
Decision
Growth
Morale
Organized
Owners
Unique
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Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
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Dream
American Dream
Remember When
Succeed
Butt
Tried
Worked
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I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
Curt Flood / Baseball Player
General Manager
Higher
Money Black Me
Manager
Raise
Received
Required
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I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Curt Flood / Baseball Player
Asia
Dying
Southeast Asia
Time Good Men
Apart
Period
Good Men
Sixties
Southeast
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