When you put that number 42 on, what does it feel like?

It's almost like you don't want to wear it.

Even though everybody's wearing it at the same time, I feel like nobody should wear it.

Just because people just know Jackieie robinson he broke the color

barrier boom boom whatever but people like myself who know so many stories and know so much that

he went through and being black it's like no no i don't think anybody should wear it i think it should be

retired up in every stadium. And you know

Jack Robinson, you know, everything about him. You should learn about him, you know, learn about

what he went through, learn about everything that really everybody, all the Niro League guys went through.

I think back on my time and my involvement, I think, back on my time and my involvement with the Negro Leagues baseball museum, which is now hard for me to believe, 29 years of involvement, beginning as a volunteer and then ultimately starting to work for this institution in 1998,

ultimately becoming the vice president of marketing, leaving briefly and then coming back,

now in my 11th year as president of the Negro Leagues baseball museum.

And over that time, I've had an opportunity to walk

countless numbers of Major League Baseball athletes,

coaches, managers, executives.

And I get to share the stories. I get to share the stories.

I get to share the stories, many of them, that my friend Buck O'Neill shared with me,

and many of them that I watched and listened as Buck O'Neill shared them with the young athletes because nothing excited him more than having young major league athletes

walk through his museum. And when Bucklenell passed away almost 16 years ago, he basically

handed me the baton. And I've taken that baton now, and I get, I guess as I like to say, preach the gospel

of the Negro Leagues and the virtues of his museum to these young athletes.

And the thing that we talk about, and the thing that I think really resonates with them, is that we talk about it from the standpoint of love of a game.

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