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Black Diamonds

CC Sabathia, Curtis Granderson, and Edwin Jackson | LIVE from Play Ball Park in LA

Black Diamonds

SiriusXM

History, Baseball, Black History, Sports, Negro Leagues, Documentary, Equality, Society & Culture, Civil Rights

4.8617 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The founding board of The Players Alliance - Curtis Granderson, Edwin Jackson, and CC Sabathia - joins Bob Kendrick in front of a live audience at Play Ball Park in Los Angeles to discuss their work to make baseball more accessible in urban communities, expanding opportunities for women, continuing the legacy of the Negro Leagues greats, honoring Buck O'Neil, and the greatest trash talkers in baseball history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at Major League Baseball's Playball Park in Los Angeles.

0:08.0

What's up, LA? And welcome to another live edition of Black Diamonds. I can't tell you again, I think for every one of these episodes we've done, I've told you how excited I am about,

0:22.0

and I'm going to tell you again, I'm just as excited to have these three young men join me on stage

0:28.6

to have a conversation, number one, about a really important organization that is really doing some amazing work

0:35.7

to help bring this game back to the urban community.

0:40.9

And the work that they're doing now over the Player Alliance,

0:44.8

you know them for their amazing Major League careers.

0:48.3

And they all had tremendous careers.

0:51.6

So I'm going to introduce them.

0:53.3

They don't really need an introduction, but I'm going to introduce them starting from my far

0:57.6

left, someone who really another member of the Black Aces.

1:04.4

And I just had Ferguson Jenkins on just before you guys got here.

1:08.7

And we talked about being here in L.A.

1:10.9

And, of course, the late Jim Muttcat Grant

1:13.0

lived here for so long

1:15.1

and C.C. was on the show last year

1:18.4

along with David Price and Dave Stewart

1:20.9

where we pulled together a group of those guys

1:23.5

who had now become part of the Black Aces

1:25.9

and we talked about Mudcat.

1:28.1

He's getting his Cy Young Award, but he had won, what, 19 games at year?

1:32.8

19 games, yeah.

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