Black Diamonds is back.

This is Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, excited to bring you the fifth season of the award-winning Black Diamonds.

Thanks to the efforts of people like Buck O'Neill, 77 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, we're still making progress, this time

with the integration of MLB record books.

I want you to know about all of these great baseball players.

Say the Negro League Baseball Museum, this was why it was started.

Negro Leaguers didn't need inclusion on the field or in the record book to validate them or prove what they already knew,

that they were every bit as good as the major leaguers.

But their addition to the record book shines another light on the greatness of the Negro Leads.

We used to barmstorm against the White All-Star team. We used to beat them 60% of the games we played.

This season, I'll share stories about the Negro League players who now appear on the all-time

leaderboards. I'll tell you about the hitting exploits of Charlie Chino-Smith. And I'll tell you about the great Josh Gibson, whose numbers make crystal clear why some

referred to Babe Ruth as the white Josh Gibson.

This has been the greatest home run hitter ever.

And I played against Aaron.

I played against Ted Williams, Mays. But I've never seen a man to hit home runs as graceful as Josh Gibson.

I'll tell you about the importance of Rick Woodfield and the legacy of the great Willie May.

I'll discuss the importance of the Negro League's East West All-Star game and the impact it had on baseball and the community.

And I'll tell you the story of my friend Don Nukum, a pioneer both on and off the field.

Somebody had to tear down that barrier that Kennes Shore Mountlanders was keeping, you know, erected in front of us, and we had to tear it down.

And we finally did.

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