CURT FLOOD AWARD SERIES
She had received her first big break in Hollywood a year earlier in the TV series Peyton Place and was being recognized for other roles as well. Pace, 27 at the time, was a groundbreaking actor in her own right. Like Jackie Robinson, baseball should honor Curt Flood’s sacrifice.‘I want my father in the Hall of Fame’: Curt Flood’s heroic legacy.Louis Cardinals and was a key player in the team’s 1964 and ’67 World Series championships. He had won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards, hit higher than.
The chains that bound players were about to be broken.Īctress Judy Pace Flood attends the Los Angeles Premiere of HBO’s “The Curious Case of Curt Flood” at Museum Of Tolerance on Jin Los Angeles, California.īy Christmas 1969, Pace and Flood had been dating for three years they were a power couple living their respective dreams, the epitome of Nina Simone’s Young, Gifted and Black.įlood, who was born in Houston and raised in Oakland, California, was 31 at the time and one of the best center fielders of his era. Curt Flood’s Christmas Eve letter to baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1969 served notice that baseball’s practice of treating players like cattle was no longer acceptable. This year’s celebration carries extra significance: It marks the 50th anniversary of what may be one of the most defiant letters a player has ever written to the commissioner of a major sport. “We’ll all get together in the afternoon, with my family, and two of my girlfriends and we’re going to have a good, good time,” Pace said last week from her home in California. On Christmas Eve, actress Judy Pace-Flood will gather with a few close friends and family in Los Angeles to celebrate.
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