Oh man, it was outstanding because in Nevada, man, you can go any place you wanted to go and everything.

Former Negro Leaguer, the great Buck O'Neill.

In Alabama, I was a baseball player, and when I got back here, I was a black baseball player.

The connection to the Negro Leagues and Spanish-speaking countries is profound.

There were so many Negro leaguers who would call those Spanish-speaking countries home.

Negro league players, after all, were some of the first Americans to play in many Spanish-speaking countries.

And when they went to those countries, they were treated like heroes.

They stayed in the finest hotels.

They ate in the finest restaurants that those countries had to offer.

And then, of course, would come back home to the United States

and be treated like second-class citizens.

So as a result, so many Negro leaders would call those Spanish-speaking countries home

because in those countries, they weren't black baseball players.

They were just baseball players, and that's

all they ever wanted to be. But the connection to Cuba is as strong and meaningful as any

of the other countries that those Negro League players call home. And this is the story of the Cuban stars.

Red Sox Hall of Famer and native son of Cuba, the great Louis Tiant.

Thank you on those Negro League players and all those guys.

They give you, you can say, their life.

We can make money.

We can do things they never could do in that time.

They paid away for us.

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