Curt Flood

Curt Flood Assignment
APSM 3332 (Professor Newberg)
FALL 2022
When we get to our Antitrust & Labor Law unit on November 15, we will discuss the life and legacy of
Curt Flood. You may choose to do some reading about him in advance if you’d like to get started on
this assignment, which is due at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 20.
PART ONE
By the end of the semester, we will have covered 10 different units:
o The U.S Legal System
o Tort Law & Product Liability
o Risk Management
o Agency Law
o Contract Law
o Employment Law
o Constitutional Law
o Gender Equity
o Antitrust & Labor Law
o Intellectual Property
For Part One of this assignment, you are to identify how Curt Flood’s efforts and legacy help illustrate at
least one legal or ethical concept from three of those 10 units. (NOTE: If you choose Antitrust as one
of your three entries, you may not choose Labor Law as a separate entry.)
It’s not enough, for example, to complete Part One by simply stating: “Tort Law, Risk Management, and
Agency Law.” For each of your three responses, you should elaborate with something like this: “TORT
LAW: Flood was a victim of trespass and conversion of personal property when one of his St. Louis
teammates stole four of his seven Gold Gloves. His teammate, in defense of the conversion claim,
contended that Flood had given him permission to hold onto the four Gold Gloves until Flood built a
larger trophy case in his home. The jury wasn’t convinced by the defense and awarded Flood damages.”
(That never happened, so don’t use it as one of your three examples. You must provide actual
correlations between Flood’s story and the concepts we’ve studied. But hopefully you get the idea.)
There is no minimum or maximum word count for your three responses in Part One. I’m more
interested in your grasp of the concepts and depth of thinking.
PART TWO
Describe how different the world of sports would be today if Flood had not taken the risks and the stand
that he did. This needs to be in your own words; you will learn about Flood from your textbook reading
and in class, and I expect you’ll come up with ideas for this part of the assignment on your own.
Needless to say, the plagiarism monitors will be activated.
Your response in Part Two must be at least 250 words.