Reggie Jackson | Are We Any Closer to Diversity in Baseball?

Black Diamonds

SiriusXM

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

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Hall of Famer - and son of a Negro Leagues infielder - Reggie Jackson joins Bob Kendrick for a candid, in-depth conversation about race and baseball, and the question of whether we're truly any closer to diversity in the game than we were when Reggie retired. Hear Reggie's commentary on the lack of Black managers and executives in the game today, and how we need more than just one Dana Brown running player personnel before we can start celebrating. Hear Reggie's reaction to Glen Kuiper's racial slur and subsequent apology, and why he's having a much harder time forgiving than Bob is. And hear Reggie's wealth of stories, from growing up amidst our nation's civil unrest, and his father passing on the wisdom of the Negro Leaguers, to his conversations with Jim Brown, and a home run that nearly left Kansas City entirely.

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0:00.0	Oh, what a world series for Ritchie Jackson.
0:11.0	First hit right in his deal, how John Sievo would say.
0:16.0	Reggie Jackson is now well on his way to becoming the most valuable player.
0:27.1	I am absolutely thrilled to welcome to Black Diamonds, someone who is no stranger to the history of the Negro League,
0:35.9	someone who is no stranger to the Negro League's baseball League, someone who is no stranger to the Negro League's
0:38.7	baseball museum. And he just happens to be
0:40.8	one of the greatest baseball players of all time,
0:45.5	the legendary Reggie Jackson.
0:48.4	Reggie, welcome to Black Diamonds.
0:51.4	Thank you. Good to visit with you.
0:55.5	Gosh, I think it's about time.
0:57.5	I got a chance to share some thoughts with you and to interact and interface with our ideas
1:06.8	and, you know, what you've got going on, really.
1:09.2	So I'm looking forward to the conversation.
1:12.5	Yeah, now, it was so special, man, to welcome you and Jim Crane with the Astros to the
1:19.9	museum a couple of years ago as you were still in the process of working on your
1:25.7	brilliant documentary about your life. Take me back to the moment you
1:32.1	walked into this museum and what that meant to you. Um, you know, I think I was most impressed
1:41.3	with the statues of the guys in different positions.
1:48.0	And while it's, you know, you're unexcited and proud to walk through there,
1:56.4	you get disappointed because I understand part of the pain that they went through during their
2:06.1	career, during their years. I played in Alabama and Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee in the mid-60s.
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