Brothers, yes, I know I'm up and down please try to sell apologies for the sadness that I found the years we spent

Nothing short grateful for our trip, I'm those sweet, nothing short of thankful

Nothing gonna change for mine, I'm traveling a different highway

Nothing gonna change for mine, I'm walking a different line

Nothing gonna change for mine, I'm walking a different line, I'm walking a different line

Hello and welcome to episode 1141 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast

brought to you by our Patreon supporters, that's Ben Lindbergh over there

of the ringer him to the soul and over here, a fan-graphs did that backwards order

just trying to catch you off guard, and uh, hi, we are, uh, we're recording this podcast

in advance because we're not going to be around on Friday after the holiday

but we do have lined up for this episode, a, uh, very fun and insightful and informative

interview with a, with a couple of guys here to talk about a baseball player that you and I had never heard of

and it's right that this player is really incredible

Yes, the Negro League great John Donaldson who had a pretty incredible career both on and off the field

and these two people we're about to talk to are trying to raise awareness of his career and his life

and they have raised our awareness of it from zero to fairly informed I would say

so I hope that they will do the same for all of you and yes, we are pre-recording of course

so if there has been any big news in the last day or two, you and I currently do not know about it

hopefully MLP has gone easy on everyone and has not made any major news in the last day or two

looking at you, Jerry DePoto, I know that you have, but we hope so

Was it the day before Thanksgiving last year that I thought while I was on the locker-dune cigarette trade?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I hope that it's been this little week and I hope that all of you will have had a happy Thanksgiving

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