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Curt Flood Foundation®
Curt Flood Foundation® based in Los Angeles, California, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that establishes strategic partnerships with charitable organizations whose work aligns with our mission, in order to activate our connections, resources and fundraising efforts, for direct support of their programs dedicated to improving the physical, emotional, and social health and relationships of African-American and Latinx girls and young women.
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News & Views
We work hard to get our efforts noticed by the media and are so proud when this goal comes to fruition. A well informed community is an empowered one as well, so take a look at some of the latest coverage we’ve received below and help spread the word about all the amazing developments at Curt Flood Foundation.
"The Curt Flood Foundation, founded by the late player whose challenge of baseball’s reserve system helped create free agency, has recently formed a partnership with Baseball For All, which empowers and supports girls who want to play baseball. Kudos to both organizations for their commitment and cooperative spirit." -Ken Davidoff, Baseball Columnist, NY Post
50 years after his letter changed baseball forever, Curt Flood's sacrifice still resonates. By Gabe Lacques | USA TODAY - Dec. 24, 2019
Listen to the The D Lew Show Episode - Curt Flood Jr. Continues Push to Get Dad into Cooperstown on iHeartRadio |
"Hopefully, the iconic players and the superstar players will recognize that their great fortune has roots.
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Relatively Speaking - Curt Flood Jr Part 1: Curt Flood Jr. lived through a different side of his father’s legacy. From love, to sadness, to resentment, to peace, Flood Jr. tells us the story of his father from the point of view of a son of a controversial black superstar through the 60s and 70s.
Forgotten by baseball, ignored by the Hall of Fame, Flood Jr. tells us his quest to get his dad enshrined and honored by Major League Baseball for the heroic stamp he left on the game – even if he’d rather his father have had a normal job, so he could have been at home.
From Idea to Reality: The Evolution of Curt Flood Foundation®
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1-on-1 with Curt Flood Foundation® CEO
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Curt Flood fought MLB’s indentured servitude policy — and racism right in his native Bay Area
“In the history of man, there’s no other profession except slavery where one man is tied to one owner for the rest of his life,” Flood said then. “Me as a Black man, I’m probably a lot more sensitive to the rights of other people because I have been denied these rights.”
https://www.mercurynews.com/curt-flood-fought-for-free-agency-and-against-racism-but-who-remembers