How the Negro Leagues Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A decade before the U.S. officially segregated in 1896, baseball banned black players. A decade before the US integrated, baseball broke the color barrier. Between, the Negro Leagues produced some of the finest players to ever take the field.

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0:41.1	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry.
0:47.4	And there's this stuff you should know.
0:49.2	Sportsy edition.
0:50.5	Sportsy?
0:51.9	I think really we should err on just the side of history.
0:55.0	Well, I even put a note in here if you don't like sports, listen to this one anyway.
0:59.6	Yeah.
1:00.6	Because this is about much more than baseball.
1:02.7	Yeah.
1:03.7	This is about history and about the overcoming adversity.
1:10.7	Yeah, like it's a very interesting story because and we'll get into this but I think people
1:16.0	will be better.
1:17.0	And to think of the Negro leagues and that's what this is about the baseball Negro leagues,
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