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 all know, is Babe Ruth.

Hank Aaron.

Baseball legend Hank Aaron.

Shohei Otani. Superstar, Shohay O'Donnie.

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 a 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 significant chapters,

not in baseball history, but in American history.

In this season of Reclaim, we're going to open that chapter

and tell the stories of the Negro Leads.

I'm Vanessa Ivy Rose.

I'm a baseball fan.

And I'm the granddaughter of one of the greatest batters you've never heard of.

Norman Turkey Stearns.

Turkey's first season with the Detroit Stars, by all accounts, was unbelievable.

In an era defined by discrimination, my grandfather and other black baseball players found a way to play the game they loved,

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