Effectively Wild Episode 1560: Unearthing Negro Leagues History
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the difficulties of disclosing or obscuring the identities of players who hit the injured list after contracting COVID-19, dissect a few new analogies from Scott Boras’s brain, and discuss resuming their season preview series, then (35:47) conclude their week-long celebration of the Negro Leagues by bringing on esteemed Negro Leagues historian Larry Lester to discuss the origins of scholarship about the Negro Leagues, co-founding the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, collecting Negro Leagues artifacts, his relationships with former Negro League players, helping select the Negro Leaguers inducted into the hall of Fame, his efforts to find Negro Leagues box scores and the status of the project to complete the statistical record, the greatest writers who covered the Negro Leagues, his favorite unsung players, the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project, how he researched Negro Leagues uniforms and helped obtain pensions for Negro Leaguers, and more (plus a postscript about reading recommendations).
Audio intro: Bob Dylan, "One More Cup of Coffee"
Audio interstitial: Natural Resource, "Negro Baseball League"
Audio outro: Blind Lemon Jefferson, "See That My Grave is Kept Clean"
Link to stream Stove League on Viki
Link to Lindsey on COVID and the IL
Link to Larry Lester’s website
Link to NLBM website
Link to Only the Ball Was White
Link to Larry’s Henry Chadwick Award page
Link to Larry’s Bob Davids Award page
Link to Hall of Fame Screening Committee press release
Link to Grave Marker Project page
Link to Jerry Malloy Conference info
Link to info on Cannonball Dick Redding
Link to Seamheads Negro Leagues Database
Link to SABR’s guide to researching the Negro Leagues
Link to Rob Arthur on systemic racism in baseball
Link to Rob on racial bias in player promotions
Link to Shakeia Taylor on Effa Manley
Link to Shakeia on the Negro Leagues centennial
Link to Shakeia on the Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project
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| 0:00.0 | He overseez his kingdom, so no stranger does intrude. |
| 0:07.0 | His voice it trembles as he calls out for another plate of food. |
| 0:14.0 | One more cup of coffee for the food. |
| 0:21.0 | One more cup of coffee for our food. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1560 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Meg Rally, a fan-graphed and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ring of Ben. How are you? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm doing okay. Watched all of Stoeple get. |
| 0:45.0 | No, I've been working. I'm sorry. Okay, I mean to get on it. |
| 0:52.0 | The Stoeple is learning. It burns us the Stoeple. Yes. Ready? |
| 0:56.0 | 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. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, I will get on it. I promise. |
| 1:04.0 | 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. |
| 1:13.0 | 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. |
| 1:32.0 | He really has been involved every step of the way with all of the major initiatives that have happened surrounding the Negro Leagues. |
| 1:39.0 | 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. |
| 1:49.0 | So we will make an effort to incorporate that into future weeks as well. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, it does not need to be a focus only this week. |
| 1:56.0 | 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. |
| 2:04.0 | If you want to say you know stuff about baseball, you need to know about this baseball. |
| 2:08.0 | So let's make a point of not having it be a once a year, once a centennial kind of a deal. |
| 2:15.0 | Yes indeed. So what's going on in baseball's present? |
| 2:21.0 | 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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