Shortly thereafter, in February 1959, Flood married Beverly Collins their union produced four children. After two successful seasons in the Reds' system that included brief playing stints in Cincinnati both years, Flood was traded to the St. The following year Flood played for Savannah in the South Atlantic League.
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Sent to the Class B Carolina League to play for High Point–Thomasville, he faced the full brunt of racial discrimination in the recently desegregated southern minor leagues. In February 1956 Flood began his baseball career with the Cincinnati organization and immediately met unfamiliar segregation when he arrived in Tampa, Florida, for spring training. Flood attended the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and worked as a portrait artist during the off-seasons. Chambers instilled in Flood a lifelong love of art.
Another school-age influence for Flood was Jim Chambers, an art teacher at Hoover Junior High School. The Cincinnati Reds organization in 1956.
Flood and Robinson were teammates on one of Powles's American Legion teams, and Flood followed Robinson into At nine years old Flood joined a police-sponsored midget league baseball team coached by George Powles, a prominent Oakland baseball figure who also coached the baseball stars Frank Robinson, Vada Pinson, and Joe Morgan among others. His father often took a second job to supplement their income. When Flood was two years old, his family moved to Oakland, California, his mother and father both worked at menial jobs in a hospital. 20 January 1997 in Inglewood, California), outstanding outfielder in the 1960s who challenged the legality of base-ball's reserve clause, laying the groundwork for player free agency.įlood was the last of the six children of Herman Flood and Laura Flood.
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