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Black Diamonds

Fergie Jenkins | LIVE from Play Ball Park in LA

Black Diamonds

SiriusXM

History, Baseball, Black History, Sports, Negro Leagues, Documentary, Equality, Society & Culture, Civil Rights

4.8617 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins sits down with Bob Kendrick in front of a live audience at Play Ball Park in Los Angeles, talking about his career with Ernie Banks and the Cubs, the legacy of Buck O'Neil, Dick Allen, Roberto Clemente, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at Major League Baseball's Playball Park in Los Angeles.

0:08.0

Hey, what's up, LA? We show continues. And man, it's so exciting to be here. And like I said, to be here in this space, the Negro League Baseball exhibit.

0:21.7

What an amazing job.

0:23.4

This has been a complete redo of this exhibit.

0:26.4

I want to tip my gap to all my friends over at Major League Baseball

0:29.7

and the amazing designers who put this together.

0:32.5

This is absolutely beautiful,

0:34.7

and I can't think of a better place for us to be recording black diamonds

0:39.3

and I am absolutely delighted to introduce someone who needs no introduction

0:48.3

because he is one of the greatest to ever tow the mound the the legendary Hall of Famer, Ferguson Jenkins.

0:57.9

Y'all give it up for Ferggy.

0:59.6

Thank you.

1:00.8

And Ferggy, man.

1:01.9

Number one, I haven't seen you since they erected a life-size, maybe even larger than

1:08.6

a life-size statue of you there at Wrigley Field.

1:13.5

Congratulations on a tremendous honor.

1:16.3

Thank you.

1:16.8

You know, I was surprising that I've seen the sculpture a couple of times before they erected it.

1:21.9

It does look like me, bitching.

1:25.0

Which a lot of times you get a sculpture.

1:26.8

And they don't look like it... They don't look exactly.

1:29.3

But this gentleman got the caption of me, my face, the back,

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