"From Baselines to Basepaths": Dave Winfield, Sherman Jenkins, and Bob Kendrick on the legacy of Ted Strong

Black Diamonds

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

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Who was Ted Strong, the man Buck O'Neil called "the greatest athlete he ever saw?" Find out, as Hall of Famer Dave Winfield joins Bob Kendrick (40:25) to talk about his admiration of the Negro Leagues, his career, his multi-sport background, and the legacy of former Negro Leaguer and Harlem Globetrotter Ted Strong (48:25). Plus, Bob breaks down the lengthy crossover history of Negro Leaguers who became basketball stars (0:55), and biographer Sherman Jenkins stops by to talk about the life and lasting impact of the great Ted Strong (14:19).

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0:00.0	I would love to hit a line drive.
0:08.6	And there's a couple of short stops.
0:11.4	You know, try to get that in between hop.
0:13.4	They still have seams on the body part, but as the ball skipped away from them.
0:19.7	In the last 40 years,
0:21.1	we've never seen an athlete quite like Dave Winfield,
0:24.6	drafted in three sports by four pro leagues.
0:28.3	And before there was Dave Winfield,
0:30.5	there was Ted Strong.
0:32.6	Hear all about the man who Buck O'Neill calls
0:34.9	the greatest athlete he ever saw.
0:36.9	Plus, a conversation with the man who may be number two.
0:41.6	Dave Winfield on Black Diamonds, from the baselines to the base paths.
0:53.0	When I tell guests at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum that Jackie Robinson's weakest sport was baseball, you could imagine how eye-opening that is for them.
1:06.3	Because as we know, Jackie Robinson is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
1:15.0	But baseball was indeed his weakest sport.
1:18.0	He was a much better basketball football track athlete.
1:22.5	Some say an even better tennis player and one heck of a golfer.
1:27.0	So there was absolutely nothing that Jackie Robinson could not do.
1:31.8	Jackie Robinson was widely regarded as having been the best basketball player in the country at one stretch.
1:39.5	He led what would be now known as the Pact 12 in scoring.
1:43.6	His game was very much reminiscent for those of you
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