4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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0:00.0 | We have a tendency in America to forget things. |
0:05.0 | We remember the Negro League. |
0:07.0 | It's something that should not be forgotten. |
0:10.0 | They were American giants, stars, monarchs, barons, and clowns. |
0:15.0 | They were pioneers and revolutionaries. |
0:18.0 | They were entertainers and icons. |
0:20.0 | They were the shining stars hidden in darkness, |
0:22.9 | playing baseball for the love of the game and the roar of the crowd. Through segregation, |
0:27.6 | through Jim Crow, through a time when the Major League said the color of their skin made them |
0:31.9 | unqualified, and in a league where the thunder and their bats made them unforgettable. |
0:38.3 | From Oscar Charleston and Satchel Pays to Jackie Robinson and young Henry Aaron. |
0:43.3 | They loved the game and they wanted to show people that just give us an opportunity. |
0:49.3 | These are the stories, the legends, the history of Negro Leagues baseball. |
0:53.3 | An opportunity to play like you've given everybody else, and we'll show you how to play the game of baseball. |
0:59.7 | I'm Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City. |
1:03.6 | Every day, I'm surrounded by this history, America's history, the events, the people, and the stories of the Negro Leagues. |
1:10.2 | On my new podcast, Black Diamonds, I'm going to bring these American Giants to life, |
1:15.0 | these vivid characters and Hall of Fame talents that shape Negro League baseball. |
1:19.6 | These walls will talk. |
1:21.3 | You'll experience the history and hear from the men and women who put on those wool caps |
1:25.5 | 75 years ago, like my dear friend, the late |
1:29.0 | Bucco Neil. |
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