It's Dick Lear. When I'm not reporting or writing, I'm often following the Red Sox,

and I wanted to tell you about another podcast from ABC Audio that you might like,

called Reclaimed, The Forgotten League. There's a hidden story about America's most love sport.

The Forgotten League explores how baseball was shaped by segregation,

and how the black athletes who were shut out of the major leagues

created their own space to play. It traces the highs and lows of what's known as the Negro Leaks,

and what it tells us about America today. I want to play you the trailer for this season

of Reclaimed. If you find it interesting, click the link in our episode description

and follow the show for the rest of the story. Here's the trailer.

I've got a question for you. Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?

Whether you're a baseball fan or not, you probably have someone in mind, like Babe Ruth.

His name, as you are, is Babe Ruth.

Hey, Gary.

Baseball legend, Hank Errin.

Shohei Otai.

These are the greats of America's pastime. Right?

But what if I told you that names have been purposely excluded from that list?

Players kept out of our record books, out of our halls of fame, and out of our shared memory.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson famously broke the color line. But before that, there was a whole other

chapter of American baseball, a chapter that belongs to thousands of black players who competed

in the segregated league. This is not in the pages of American history books, and so countless

generations of us went through our own formal educations without knowing one of the most

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