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CURT FLOOD - CONTRACT SIGNED 09/22/1989 CO-SIGNED BY: DICK DRAGO - HFSID 295370
CURT FLOOD and DICK DRAGO
Dick Drago agrees to join the Senior Professional Baseball
Association for a fee of $5,000 per month.
Contract signed: "
Approved/Curt Flood/September 22, 1989" and
"
Richard A. Drago", 11 pages, 8½x11.
Fort Myers, Florida 1989
September 15. Agreement between the Senior Professional Baseball Association
and Dalton Jones. The club agrees to pay Jones a fee of $5,000 per month for
playing in the league.
The Senior Professional Baseball
Association,
with Flood as commissioner, was a winter league based in
Florida. The minimum age was 35 (32 for catchers); its oldest layer (Ed
Rakow) was 44.
The SPBA played a full 72-game schedule in 1989 but folded in
the middle of its second season. CURT FLOOD (1938-1997) played
Major League Baseball from 1956 to 1969, and made a brief reappearance in 1971.
Flood was a reliable hitter who topped .300 three times in an era when
pitching dominated the game. But Flood's greatest talent was in centerfield,
which he roamed for the St Louis Cardinals, beginning in 1958.
One of the
finest defensive players of any era, Flood had 223 consecutive games without an
error, and made no errors at all in 1966. A three-time All-Star, he won seven
consecutive Gold Glove awards. He played in all seven games of three World
Series for the Cardinals: victories over the Yankees and Red Sox in 1964 and
1967, and a loss to the Tigers in 1968. He was one of only four Cardinals to
appear on all three teams.
After the 1969 season, the Cardinals traded Flood
to the Phillies. Flood refused to go, and challenged the "reserve clause" which
had long denied players the right to negotiate with multiple teams for the best
offer. He sat out the 1970 season, taking his suit against Major League Baseball
and Commissioner Bowie Kuhn all the way to the Supreme Court. The Major
League Players Association endorsed his suit, but not one active player was
willing to appear in court on his behalf. With former Supreme Court Justice
Arthur Goldberg as his lawyer, Flood
lost by a 5-3 vote in the Supreme
Court. He made a brief return to baseball with the Washington Senators in 1971,
but his skills were gone, and he soon retired. Flood fought law suits and the
Internal Revenue Service for the rest of his life.
In 1975, an arbiter voided
the reserve clause in cases involving two other players, and the era of free
agency began. Flood had been five years ahead of his time.
Richard
Anthony "Dick" Drago (born June 25, 1945) is a former American League relief
pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Royals
(1969-1973), Boston Red Sox (1974-1975, 1978-1980), California Angels
(1976-1977), Baltimore Orioles (1977) and Seattle Mariners (1981).
Multiple staple holes at top left. Lightly
creased. Drago's Social Security number is whited out on the signed page.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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