He would look like he wouldn't get to the ball, but he would always get to it.

And then as soon as he did it, he popped that ball over to the first base, then he'd be out, and he said, they had just in time.

Just in time.

And, you know, that's the thing with him.

He made it look easy, effortless.

One of the favorite aspects of my job here at the Negro League Baseball Museum is actually getting down in the gallery and leading tours for our guests. And oftentimes, I'll go downstairs, y'all, and I'll just

start running my mouth. I'll start talking to people, and you can see the more I talk, people

started to get a little bit closer, to get an earshot. And of course, I give them eye contact,

let them know that it is perfectly okay that they join,

whomever my might be with as I'm taking people through the museum. I never tell them who I am.

Now, through this program, people have started to hear my voice and they pretty much automatically

know it's me now, but back in the day, before I had this platform known as Black Diamonds,

I would just meet people and then start talking to them. Perhaps it's something that I learned

from Buck O'Neill. Buck would oftentimes sit here and people would do a double take. They'd walk

by, they see Buck O'Neill and think to themselves, that looks like Buck O'Neill. And then they realized that it is

Buck O'Neill and they would gain the courage to go over and introduce themselves. And the next thing,

you know, Buck O'Neill was walking them through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. It is as memorable

of an experience as you could probably have. And I hope that I'm giving those same kind of memories.

And I know that there are a lot of people who sit in my seat who would never take the time

out to go down and actually give tours. I could not imagine not doing it. Well, anyway, here at the

Negro League's Baseball Museum on the field of legends, and as I

introduced the players at second base from Palacca, Florida, the great John Henry Pop Lloyd.

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