He overseez his kingdom, so no stranger does intrude.

His voice it trembles as he calls out for another plate of food.

One more cup of coffee for the food.

One more cup of coffee for our food.

Hello and welcome to episode 1560 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rally, a fan-graphed and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ring of Ben. How are you?

I'm doing okay. Watched all of Stoeple get.

No, I've been working. I'm sorry. Okay, I mean to get on it.

The Stoeple is learning. It burns us the Stoeple. Yes. Ready?

I need someone else to talk about it with other than my wife. We've been talking about it plenty, but I need someone else to.

Okay, I will get on it. I promise.

Okay, well we've been busy this week because we have been doing a lot of interviews and a lot of prep for those interviews for this week when we are celebrating the Negro Leagues.

We are doing that for a third time today and we are welcoming on another great guest. I don't want to slight any other Negro Leagues researchers, but I would say perhaps the preeminent Negro Leagues researcher and historian and advocate Larry Lester, who is the co-founder of The Negro Leagues baseball museum.

He really has been involved every step of the way with all of the major initiatives that have happened surrounding the Negro Leagues.

So he will be on shortly to tell us all about that and it's been great to learn about all of this Negro Leagues history and there's so much more that I don't know and would like to know.

So we will make an effort to incorporate that into future weeks as well.

Yeah, it does not need to be a focus only this week.

We are students of baseball history and this is a very important part of it. So we should all not just you and I, but our listeners too.

If you want to say you know stuff about baseball, you need to know about this baseball.

So let's make a point of not having it be a once a year, once a centennial kind of a deal.

Yes indeed. So what's going on in baseball's present?

You know, Ben, I'm going to say the following, which is I don't think it will surprise you or our listeners to know that I spend a lot of time, I spend a lot of time reading manuals related to baseball.

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