Cobi Jones Quotes
The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.
DeKlerk had just become president of South Africa which was enmeshed in a brutal system of apartheid—racial separation with the 10% white population controlling the 90% black majority. The black political parties were illegal and net even recognized and there was no negotiation at all. The country was a world pariah, boycotted by many in the world including much of the Untied States. When De Klerk became president no one had any idea that he would make such a radical break with the past. However, he announced the lifting of the ban on the Black political parties, and the release of Nelson Mandela who had served 26 years in prison, and then made this famous statement which led to the modern state of South Africa. DeKlerk and Mandela shared the Nobel peace prize for their remarkable achievement.
Congress had exempted Professional Baseball from the Anti-Trust laws and players were bought and sold with no say in the process. Flood made history by challenging the practice. He lost in the Supreme Court which ruled that Congress had exempted baseball, however he was eventually vindicated when the reserve clause fell in 1975
Cobi N'Gai Jones is an American former soccer player and commentator. He is currently an analyst for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy on Time Warner Cable SportsNet. He can also be seen on Fox Sports, BeIN Sports, the Pac-12 Network and as the host of the Totally Football Show: American Edition.
