{"id":881950,"date":"2019-12-24T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=881950"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:18:16","slug":"curt-flood-set-off-the-free-agent-revolution-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=881950","title":{"rendered":"Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/curt-flood-set-off-the-free-agent-revolution-50-years-ago\/18850826\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2019\/12\/23\/18850827\/5e012be9cf5ce-media_90f742769c384ae2b4fab5bf44b5f473-DMID1-5l99b2yrd-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Flood's_50th_Anniversary_06791\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago Tuesday with a 128-word letter to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, two paragraphs that pretty much ended the career of a World Series champion regarded as among the sport&#8217;s stars but united a union behind his cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/curt-flood-set-off-the-free-agent-revolution-50-years-ago\/18850826\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/curt-flood-set-off-the-free-agent-revolution-50-years-ago\/18850826\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago Tuesday with a 128-word letter to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, two paragraphs that pretty much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}