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...DIED. CURT FLOOD, 59, doughty former St. Louis Cardinal centerfielder; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Flood defied baseball's hallowed reserve system in 1969 by refusing to be traded from St. Louis, and later, in a case that went to the Supreme Court, sued for antitrust violation. He lost, but his singular challenge paved the way for the 1975 agreement permitting players to become free agents...
...ANGELES: Curt Flood, the former St. Louis Cardinals center fielder who died Monday of throat cancer at 59, was a premier player, a seven-time Gold Glove winner who hit over .300 six times from 1956-71 and helped the Cardinals win the World Series in 1964 and 1967. But it was Flood's defiance of baseball's reserve clause, which prohibited players from choosing the teams they played for, that brought free-agency to baseball and changed the game forever. Flood, traded to the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1969 season, refused to report, instead applying to Bowie Kuhn...
Junior Joel Friedman, an NCAA qualifier at the 134-pound level last season, will wrestle at 142. Junior Adam Griesemer will move up from 142 to 150 and sophomore Curt Anderson will wrestle...
Innelli takes on Curt Weldon for the second time in a district where Republicans outnumber Democrats 2 to 1. Borrowing a page from the Clinton playbook, however, he runs with what is usually a Republican platform: family values...
...CURT WELDON (R) District...