Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro League Baseball Museum

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, we're talking baseball! Jesse talks with Bob Kendrick, the President of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City. He's here to talk about the importance of Black Americans in shaping modern American baseball, the talent and legacy of the Negro League players, and how he's celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro Leagues. All that and more on this week's Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:11.1	Coming to you from my home in the city I live in, the city of angels, it's Bullseye.
0:25.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:26.0	Didn't write that.
0:28.3	It's about every year on Bullseye we bring you a week dedicated to my favorite sport baseball.
0:33.1	We usually try and put it out around opening day.
0:36.3	Of course baseball is very different this year.
0:39.0	The season started late, the stadiums are almost empty and by the time this airs it's
0:45.3	possible that the season will not exist anymore.
0:50.0	So this year's Bullseye Baseball Week is going to be a little different too.
0:54.2	We're going to talk about baseball's history.
0:56.9	First up, an interview with Bob Kendrick.
1:00.0	Bob is the president of the Negro League Baseball Museum.
1:03.3	He's had that job for almost a decade.
1:05.6	The NLBM is pretty much the only place in the world dedicated to telling the story of
1:10.7	the Negro leagues.
1:12.1	The leagues that gave rise to players like Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and
1:16.2	Satchel Page.
1:17.6	Not to mention of course the many players who were never allowed to play major league
1:21.4	baseball.
1:22.4	Bob and I had a really great conversation so I won't say much more than that because I
1:26.7	want to get out of the way.
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