Ramone Russell | Bringing the Negro Leagues to MLB: The Show 23

Black Diamonds

SiriusXM

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

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Imagine, stepping into the shoes of Satchel Paige to face Josh Gibson in the 1942 Negro Leagues World Series. With the bases loaded. And with every fielder on your side kneeling around the pitcher's mound. Starting this week, you can. Bob Kendrick sits down with Sony's Ramone Russell to tell the story of how the two of them have brought the Negro Leagues to life in this year's edition of MLB: The Show, and why it's already bringing baseball history, and American history, to a new generation like never before. Hear how the stadiums, the crowds, the uniforms, the windups, the swings, the slides, and most importantly, the stories were all recreated in living color, and how it all amounts to the most exciting year in the history of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

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0:00.0	You get the pick from the litany of great pitches that Satchel had, and as I've said, he
0:07.0	on Black Diamond's on another occasion, Satchel had names for his pitches.
0:12.0	He didn't have fastball, curveball, changeup, not Satchel.
0:15.1	Midnight Creeper, Two Humper, Long time, Short Time, Jump Ball, Trouble Ball, Rating
0:20.8	Ball, Wobbit Ball, Dips and Do time, jump ball, trouble ball, radio ball, wobby ball, dips and do
0:23.2	and of course, his famous B ball.
0:27.4	And if you know the story of Satchell's famous B ball, as Satchell would say, it's where I
0:33.2	wanted to be, when I wanted to be there.
0:38.3	Well, it's been an amazing and crazy off-season away from Black Diamonds here at the Negro
0:46.3	League's Baseball Museum. A lot of great things happening with this organization, and I'm so excited about this upcoming year because we've got
0:57.4	more great things. I think I posted on social media at the end of January that the Negro
1:04.4	League's Baseball Museum was going to turn up the heat in February, making it one of the
1:09.6	hottest February's in Kansas City history.
1:12.6	And you know it can get a little chilly here in Kansas City.
1:15.5	And let me tell you, we did just that with exciting announcements, beginning with our own Kansas
1:22.3	City Royals for the second consecutive year.
1:26.0	They underwrote the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
1:29.0	and made it absolutely free for any and everyone
1:32.7	who wanted to visit.
1:35.1	And we set a February record.
1:38.0	They did this last year.
1:39.4	And we drew some 7,000 plus fans
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