Curtis Charles Flood (January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997) was a Major League Baseball player from 1956 to 1971. He spent the better part of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1958–1969), where he won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards from 1963 to 1969.|He became a pivotal figure in sports labor history when, challenging a trade, his unsuccessful appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court (Flood v. Kuhn) helped build solidarity for free agency and against the Reserve clause, which was ultimately struck down in 1975.More
