Sports of The Times: Flood Lost the Battle, but Won the Free-Agent War
Published 4/18/2008 at NYT > Baseball
One of the vexing questions of the new baseball season is why Curt Flood isn’t in the Hall of Fame. Is it simply ignorance of history by the voters? Or does contempt have no statute of limitations?
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