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Crepeau contrasts the Chicago Cub fans and Boston Red Sox fans on their perception of loosing. Among other things, he opines that Cub fans still believe in the face of reality and continue to hope, while the Red Sox fans are not receptive to failures.

In late 1969 after refusing to accept his trade from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies in a seven-player deal, Curt Flood, for twelve years a St. Louis outfielder, wrote to Bowie Kuhn declaring his intentions. Flood said among other things: “I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the several states.”¹ The Flood case has become a historical

Crepeau reviews Le Football: A History of American Football in France by Russ Crawford.