Background
Curtis Flood was born on January 19, 1938 in Houston, Texas, United States and raised in Oakland, California.
Curtis Flood was born on January 19, 1938 in Houston, Texas, United States and raised in Oakland, California.
Flood played in the same outfield in West Oakland's McClymonds High School as Vada Pinson and Frank Robinson.
Flood signed with the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1956 and made a handful of appearances for the team in 1956–57 before being traded to the Cardinals in December 1957. For the next twelve seasons, he became a fixture in center field for St. Louis.
Since 1971, he played for Washington Senators.
After his retirement Flood purchased a bar in the resort town of Palma on the island of Majorca.
He returned to baseball as a member of the Oakland Athletics broadcasting team in 1978. In 1988 he was named commissioner of the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association.
In the mid-1990s he joined the management group of the United Baseball League.
(Book by Flood, Curt)
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