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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 20, 1970
THE BATTALION
By MIKE RATHET
Associated Press Sports Writer
Flood case challenging
majors 9 reserve clause
NEW YORK <A>) — Curt Flood,
obviously more nervous as a
court witness than as a St. Louis
Cardinal outfielder, testified
Tuesday that he had brought his
anti-trust suit against baseball
because “I didn’t think I should
be traded and treated like a piece
of property.”
Flood, nattily dressed in a blue,
double breasted suit, appeared
tense as he hunched forward on
the witness stand and was led
through his testimony by attor
ney Arthur Goldberg, former Su
preme Court Justice now a can
didate for the Democratic nomi
nation for governor of New York
State.
reserve system, is attempting to
prove that the sport is a mon
opoly operating in restraint of
trade.
He revealed he had net
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That is the critical point of
Flood's case challenging base
ball’s reserve system which be
gan trial in Federal Court here
before Judge Irving Ben Coop
er, a battery of attorneys and
several members of the baseball
establishment.
The one-time $90,000-a-year
outfielder had to be handed a
baseball bubble gum card to re
call his batting averages in spe
cific years and several times had
to be admonished by the judge
for not answering questions prop
erly.
At issue is what is popularly
known as tbe reserve clause—ac
tually a s5t of rules that binds
the player to the team that signs
him until he is traded, sold or re
leased with or without his knowl
edge and—or approval.
Philadelphia general iw
John Quinn to discuss the
tion and that Quinn had of;,
him “a little more than ^
in salary” to play with thef
lies, plus $8,000 in spring tj
ing expenses — a package ij
$100,000 neighborhood.
Flood, in challenging baseball’s
In his testimony, Flood said
he was not consulted before be
ing traded to Philadelphia follow
ing the 1969 season and did not
want to play for the Phillies be
cause, “I didn’t want to move my
businesses and family into an
other part of the United States.”
But Flood indicated moneji, •
not the issue when, as the
ing session ended, he was
by Goldberg if he would play
another club at a higher
if he was traded without his
sent.
‘No,” Flood replied.
That seemed to round out
berg’s questioning.
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