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Hello and welcome to episode 1559 of

Effectively wild a baseball podcast

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I'm the member of the ringer joined by my colleague band graphs. Hello, Mick. Hello

This is the second episode in our week of episodes devoted to the Negro League

So on our previous episode we talked to Bob Kendrick of the Negro League's baseball museum

Today we have two guests

So first we will talk to Jeremy Beer who wrote a great biography of Oscar Charleston last year

And basically a bunch of people have made the case that Oscar Charleston is the best Negro League's player

Maybe the best or one of the very best baseball players of all time and he is probably not properly appreciated

So we will talk to Jeremy about why that is and why he was so great and his life and career

And just generally the difficulty of writing a biography about a Negro League's player about whom less is known than one would want

And then after that we will be talking to Dr. Emily Rudder who is a professor who has written a lot and is an expert on

representations of black baseball will be talking specifically about a couple of movies about the Negro League's

Soul of the Game from 1996 and the Bingo Long traveling all stars and motor kings from

1976 so we'll talk a bit about those movies specifically and then about the context and

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