Hey, it's Brad. One thing you might not know about me. I love baseballs. My favorite sport of all time

I could easily talk myself blue in the face about the heroes of the game and even though I am a baseball history nerd

I did not know the full complex story about our national pastime

That's why I've been listening to this new season of reclaimed a podcast by our team here at ABC audio

This season explores what happened before Jackie Robinson integrated the sport black players who were shut out of the major leagues

Had to create their own space to play you know them as the Negro Leagues

I had heard about some of the legends of the Negro Leagues satchel page coup op-a-bell

But the story of the Negro Leagues is just full of surprises unspoken agreements

Feuding businessmen even people being recruited to play for a dictator

I want to play you the trailer for this season of reclaimed called the forgotten League and if you find this interesting

Click the link in the episode description and follow reclaimed for the rest of the story the first two episodes are out now

So no need to wait again. It's reclaimed the forgotten League from ABC audio. And here's the trailer now

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 Root

Hey, Gary baseball legend. Hey, Aaron. Show. Hey, oh time

These are the greats of America's past time

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

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