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Cap Anson
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Curt Flood
While we're waiting on the Peer Review for Cap Anson, we might as well start on our next project. As it's my choice, I'm going to pick one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history: Curt Flood.

The article's presently rated as Start-class. It's in dire need of a thorough copy-edit and is completely devoid of in-line cites. Flood's no HoF'er, but his challenge of the Reserve Clause is one of the watershed events that shaped the American pro sports landscape of today.

Do you have any reservations against this as our next project? (I was leaning towards Nolan Ryan up until today, but that article is too-heavily trafficked for my liking...) Caknuck (talk) 21:51, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. (And I agree wholeheartedly with staying away from the heavy-traffic articles. My first choice for our last pick was originally Greg Maddux, and I veered away for that very reason. *grin*)


 * I like the first sentence in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Baseball on him: "Every time a major leaguer collects a paycheck, he should thank Curt Flood." --Fabrictramp (talk) 22:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * From what I've read on Flood, it sounds like he was a very interesting man, someone whose biography will have a little meat to it. I'm going to swing by Half-Price Books this weekend to see if they have a copy of A Well-Paid Slave. I'm also going to take a first run at proofreading it this weekend. Caknuck (talk) 22:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't spend too much on it -- I requested it from another branch in our library system and should have it in a week or so. I couldn't find Baseball's Reserve System: The Case and Trial of Curt Flood v. Major League Baseball (even through interlibrary loan), but I did request The imperfect diamond : the story of baseball's reserve system and the men who fought to change it, which should also arrive in about a week. The Baseball Encyclopedia has about a page and a half on him, which I should have time to get through in the next couple of weeks. --Fabrictramp (talk) 22:42, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I got the Baseball Encyclopedia refs done, and found Flood's autobiography through interlibrary loan. No SABR bio for him. :( --Fabrictramp (talk) 00:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

(outdent)I've started wading through his autobiography (that ghostwriter sure has some stilted prose!), and started making notes here. Feel free to add / change / incorporate stuff into the article.--Fabrictramp (talk) 14:47, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Finished the autobiography. Not much meat in there, but I added what I could. Any luck getting Well Paid Slave cheaply, or should I start in on that?--Fabrictramp (talk) 16:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)