I believe David still lives in Alexandria, but could be wrong. Try the phone
book. I am sure you could buy it directly from him as I did with his auto.but
that was in 1998.. His book was more of a statistical summary of the players of
1960 although the narative of memerable events during the course of the season
was quite good. The book, "They Stolen Our Team was a paper back and was
readily available so $200 on eBay is way off-line. Arch

-------------- Original message from Lawrence Irwin <katycdc@...>:
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Dear jkrpn@...
Thanks for the mini book review! Speaking of
books, is the David Gough book on the last original
Washington Senators good? It is only available
from used dealers on-line for $200.00!
Thanks.
L. Irwin

--- jkrpn@... wrote:

> I remember seeing Curt Flood in the line up on
> opening day 1971. The Senators beat Vida Blue and
> the Oakland A's 8-0.....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICHAEL MARMER LINDA MARMER <mlmarmer@...>
> To: Washington Senators
> <thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 7:24 pm
> Subject: [The Washington Senators] Curt Flood
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I just finished reading a book about Curt Flood, "A
> Well Paid Slave" by Brad Snyder. This book came out
> in 2007.
>
> The book is mainly about his reasons to sue baseball
> and his trail.
>
> As most of you know on the Washington Senators
> group, Curt was traded from St. Louis to
> Philadelphia without his knowledge at the end of
> 1969. He was making 90,000 a year for the Cardinals,
> which was one of the highest salaries at that time
> in baseball. He learned of his trade through a
> reporter first, not through the clubs. Curt was not
> happy about this trade, as ballplayers had no rights
> in how they where treated in trades. So he sued
> baseball to fight for free agency, a unheard thing
> then.
>
> He met with Marvin Miller who head the MLB union and
> Miller tried to talk him out of this, as he told
> Curt they had very little chance of winning and how
> it could effect his career. He wanted to go on.
>
> Like they knew, it ended up in the Supreme Court
> where they lost. It was Curt who called himself a
> well paid slave, not to be a racial issue, but as a
> baseball player issue. Also, back then, the team
> could lower a salary for no reason by 20% for the
> next year. Philadelphia did offer Curt $110,000 but
> he did not want to leave St. Louis and he wanted a
> say in any trade.
>
> Sadly, the lawyer he had, Arthur Goldberg was former
> Supreme Court Justice himself and was totally
> unprepared for the trail. No player testified for
> Curt or could even come to the trail to show
> support, which hurt him greatly. Only Joe Garagiola
> testified against him. That hurt Curt badly.
> Garagiola did apologized to Flood later in life.
>
> Being a 15 yr old when Flood signed with the
> Senators I have no real clue what the trial etc. As
> we know Robert Short was able to sign Flood to play
> baseball in 1971 for the Washington Senators as he
> did sit out the 1970 season. The case went to the
> Supreme Court in the Spring of 1971. Since he sat
> out for a year, him going back to baseball to play
> did not hurt the case by being closed. Short signed
> him to a 100,000 contract.
>
> Those who remember Flood playing in 1971, where
> ecstatic, mostly and shocked when he left the club
> in the spring to take off for NYC to flight to
> Spain. Flood had a terrible Spring training and the
> season was not going well. Ted Williams was
> completely against having Flood on the team.
>
> Flood was completely out of shape when he came back
> to baseball. Once he left the Cardinals, he drank
> allot and did not much of anything. He owned a
> portrait business. But all of the portraits he
> painted where painted by someone else. He had a
> portrait of Martin Luther King Jr done for the
> family, I think it was. He even had one for Joe
> Morgan of the Reds/Phillies now ESPN announcer. He
> would sign the paintings. His business was failing
> and he owed allot of money to the IRS, so they where
> after him.
>
> He was pretty much a loner on the Senators only
> having one person Elliott Maddox trying to get him
> off the alcohol which did not work.
>
> Howard Cosell was pretty much his only friend in
> life during a rough time for him.
>
> Finally Flood turned his life around in about 1985.
> But he developed cancer and died in 1997.
>
> He scarified his career so that others could benefit
> someday in not being tied to a owner of a team. He
> knew this would happen, that his career would be
> over, but he thought that the MLB union could help
> him with a job in the union. That never happened.
>
> Today, many new ballplayers do not know who Curt
> Flood is, as the older players in management or
> coaching tell them his story.
>
> I now understand a bit better of what was going in
> his life when he disappear from the Senators. You
> have to feel for him, as he put his career on the
> line and he lost everything. Image if you did that.
>
> A very good book, as I just finished a book before
> that on Roberto Clemente. Not a Washington Senator,
> but it goes into great detail on how he got involved
> with the airlifting of food to Nicaragua. That death
> should of never have happen, due to a greedy
> government, stealing food for the needy and no
> regulation for small airplanes.
>
> Hope to see some of you at the new ballpark this
> year!
>
> Mike Marmer
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