Dave Stewart | The Nashville Stars

Black Diamonds

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

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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1989 World Series MVP Dave Stewart joins Bob Kendrick in front of a live audience at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to talk about Rickey Henderson, Bob Gibson, Vida Blue, his place among baseball's Black Aces, and his efforts to bring baseball its first Black-owned franchise since the Negro Leagues, with the expansion Nashville Stars.

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0:00.0	The following episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Negro Leagues baseball museum at the corner of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri.
0:09.5	I'm Bob Kendrick. I'm the president of the Negro League's Baseball Museum, and I'm proud to welcome someone who is no stranger, the legendary Dave Stewart, one of the members are proud member of the Black
0:24.2	Aces, one of a handful of African-American pitches to win 20 games in the major leagues,
0:31.7	a group that my friend and his friend, the late Jim Mudcatcat Grant had the foresight to bring
0:39.2	attention to we hope that
0:41.3	there will be many other
0:43.1	African American pitchers that move
0:45.2	into that. That's rarefied
0:47.5	air to win 20 games.
0:49.4	It is. Yeah, no, it is. It is
0:51.3	rarefied air, but for those of you
0:53.3	who may not know Dave Stewart,
0:56.6	he needs no introduction, but I am going to share with you a little bit of this man's
1:02.3	impressive bio and track record. Dave Smoke Stewart earned his reputation as one of Major League
1:10.3	Baseball's best big game pitchers.
1:14.1	His postseason mound dominance saw him win a World Series MVP award, two league
1:21.3	championship series MVP awards, and over his career he started 18 games in the postseason compiling a stellar 2.84
1:31.2	ERA and a 10 and 6 record 10 and 4 as a starter in the LCS. He was even more dominant going 8 and 0
1:41.6	in those games. He is an amazing athlete, an amazing businessman, a tremendous philanthropist, and a dear friend of
1:54.4	the late great Buck O'Neill and mine.
1:57.3	I'm proud to welcome back to the Negro Leagueagues Baseball Museum, Mr. Dave Stewart.
2:02.6	Thank you, sir.
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