Tuesday, October 25, 2016
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Old Main Brown Auditorium
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
Julie LaPlant
Department
Kinesiology Department
Link
http://calendar.cortland.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=1096861
In 1969, Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals professional baseball team challenged the century old reserve clause in baseball. Shelly Flood, Curt Flood’s daughter, will discuss her father’s fight for civil rights in professional baseball, the work she is doing to attain Hall of Fame Induction for her father, and her work with drug addiction, gang violence, and mental health among teenagers, and the homeless in Los Angeles, California.
For more information, contact Susan Rayl by email or at 607-753-7573