Mr. Book just finished A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight For Free Agency In Professional Sports, by Brad Snyder.

This was an excellent book on Curt Flood’s lawsuit against major league baseball and other aspects of Flood’s life. The book went into both great detail about all aspects of the suit, including everything that led up to it. It also had a lot of good information on the racial hatred that Flood endured throughout his life.

The one weakness of the book was there wasn’t much about his playing career, prior to the trade. But, that was really not the focus of the book and did not detract from it in any way.

I give this book an A+ and inducted it into the Hall of Fame.

Goodreads requires grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A+ equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews, and Goodreads.

Mr. Book originally finished reading this on October 1, 2009. He finished rereading it on October 23, 2024.