A Well-Paid Slave

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First Plume Printing, October 2007

Illustration credits: p. 1 top, p. 6 top, p. 7 top, p. 11 top: National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY; p. 1 bottom, p. 2 top and bottom, p. 4 bottom, p. 11 bottom, p. 12 top and bottom, p. 13 bottom: The Sporting News/ZUMA; p. 3 top: Herb Scharfman/Sports Illustrated; p. 3 bottom: courtesy Marian Jorgensen; p. 4 top, p. 7 bottom, p. 9 top, p. 10 bottom, p. 13 top, p. 14 top, p. 15 bottom, p. 16 top: AP/Wide World Photos; p. 5 top: courtesy John Engels; p. 5 middle: courtesy Marge Brans; p. 5 bottom: courtesy Buddy Gilbert; p. 6 bottom, p. 8 bottom, p. 10 top: Corbis; p. 8 top, p. 15 top: Library of Congress; p. 9 bottom: courtesy Allan Zerman; p. 14 bottom: Fred Kaplan/Sports Illustrated; p. 16 bottom: William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

REGISTERED TRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Viking edition as follows:
Snyder, Brad.
A well-paid slave : Curt Flood’s fight for free agency in professional sports / Brad Snyder.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN : 978-1-4406-1901-4

1. Flood, Curt, 1938- 2. Baseball players—United States—Biography. 3. African American baseball
players—Biography. 4. Free agents (Sports)—United States. I. Title.
GV865.F45S69 2006
796.357092—dc22
[B] 2006046139

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