FLOOD v. KUHN

No. 70 Civ. 202.

316 F.Supp. 271 (1970)

Curtis C. FLOOD, Plaintiff, v. Bowie K. KUHN, Individually and as Commissioner of Baseball, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

August 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Allan H. Zerman, Clayton, Mo., for plaintiff; Arthur J. Goldberg, Jay H. Topkis, Richard M. Moss, Daniel Levitt, Max Gitter, William D. Iverson, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for defendant Bowie K. Kuhn; George S. Leisure, Jr., John E. Tobin, New York City, of counsel.

Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., for defendant Bowie K. Kuhn; Paul A. Porter, Victor H. Kramer, Washington, D. C., Douglas G. Robinson, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, for all defendants except Bowie K. Kuhn; Louis F. Carroll, Mark F. Hughes, Louis L. Hoynes, Jr., Barry Rona, Robert J. Kheel, New York City, of counsel.

Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Joseph E. Cronin, President of American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, and all American League Clubs; Alexander H. Hadden, James P. Garner, G. Warren Daane, Sargent Karch, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel.


COOPER, District Judge.

On October 8, 1969, Curtis C. Flood, then a major league professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals, was "traded," his contract transferred and assigned to another National League baseball club, the Philadelphia Phillies, as part of a multi-player transaction between the two clubs. At the time of the trade he was thirty-two years old, a veteran of twelve years service with the Cardinals, co-captain of the team, and acknowledged...

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