Episode 281: "Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dick Lundy. Chino Smith. Cannonball Redding. These men are among the greatest baseball players who ever lived, author Steven Greenes says, yet they are not in the Hall of Fame. Using newly discovered statistics and long-forgotten expert polls, Greenes makes the case that these three and 21 other pre-integration Black players belong in Cooperstown.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell of me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Pellet!
0:13.0	The giant!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:26.6	Put me in cold.
0:28.7	I'm ready to play today.
0:32.6	Look at me.
0:34.6	I can be.
0:36.0	San Diego.
0:40.0	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that
0:45.3	matters. That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast
0:50.6	in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
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