Mike Cameron | A True Game Changer, Recorded at All-Star Week in Seattle

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History, Baseball, Black History, Sports, Negro Leagues, Documentary, Equality, Society & Culture, Civil Rights

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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He's a former All-Star, a three-time Gold Glover, the father of a big leaguer, one of only 22 men in history with 250 homers and 250 steals, and now... he's officially a Game Changer. Mike Cameron joins Bob Kendrick during All-Star Week in Seattle to talk about receiving 2023's prestigious "Game Changer" honors from The Players Alliance, the work of The Players Alliance in strengthening baseball in Black communities, winning the Pop Lloyd award from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, instilling the history of the Negro Leagues in his son, his lessons of mentorship, respect, and leadership, the lore of Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, and Buck O'Neil, the story of his four-home-run game, his career beside the one and only Ichiro, and so much more.

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0:00.0	You know, you could tell he was very proud of that connection that he had to the culture
0:07.3	of our game in this country from the perspective of the Negro League.
0:12.0	And then he reaches in his bag and he pulls out his checkbook and he writes a significant
0:18.7	check to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to pay honor to his friend Buck O'Neill.
0:24.9	Yeah, I didn't even want to cash that check.
0:26.9	I didn't want to cash it, man, but I had to cash it.
0:29.4	We needed to money.
0:31.1	Yes, sir.
0:32.2	Yes.
0:35.9	I am absolutely thrilled to have someone join me who again is no stranger to the Negro
0:43.3	League's baseball museum although it has been way too long since we've last seen each other.
0:50.5	Former all-star three-time gold glove winner and just as important a former john henry pop
0:58.9	lloyd community service leadership award winner from the negro league's baseball museum
1:05.6	mike cameron mike, how are you?
1:12.8	I tell you what, I'm doing very well, Bob.
1:16.3	I am very happy to be on this show with you this morning.
1:19.2	And thanks for having me on the show.
1:21.7	I mean, I get up on Saturday mornings pretty early,
1:25.3	so I get a chance to listen to it anyway, you know, MLB radio.
1:30.1	So I get a chance to actually be on the show now to listen to myself. And it's great to have you.
1:31.6	It's great to have you on.
1:33.4	And my friends over at Sirius XM Radio, MLB Network Radio,
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