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Baseball and Politics – Part II

April 7, 2010 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, History, Sports One comment

Ryan Franklin’s concern for his gun rights just doesn’t measure up to Curt Flood’s personal sacrifice to remove the shackles of the rules of the game that bound a player to a single team for the entirety of his career.

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