"Why Jackie?" Part 2: Bob Kendrick & Arnold Rampersad on the life of Jackie Robinson

Black Diamonds

SiriusXM

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

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick sits down one-on-one with Arnold Rampersad, the man chosen by Rachel Robinson to write the definitive biography of her late husband.

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0:00.0	Major League Baseball on Sirius XM is a fan's field of dreams.
0:05.7	I can hear every game?
0:07.3	From the first pitch to the last out of the World Series.
0:11.3	What about my hometown announcers?
0:13.5	They're on the Sirius XM app.
0:15.8	They built it knowing you would come.
0:18.1	Ray, there's even an entire radio channel filled with experts talking baseball all day long.
0:24.4	Is this heaven?
0:25.7	No, Ray.
0:26.8	It's MLB Network Radio, Channel 89.
0:36.4	I'm Bob Kendrick, and welcome to Black Diamonds.
0:39.3	The question that is so commonly posed to me by visitors at the Negro League's Baseball Museum as they learn about Jackie Robinson
0:47.3	was whether or not he was the best player from the Negro Leagues.
0:52.3	The answer? No.
0:54.9	He wasn't the best player on his own Kansas City Monarch team.
0:59.2	There were other Negro League veterans who were better baseball players than Jackie Robinson.
1:05.3	But he absolutely was the right man to be the first.
1:10.2	And I'll tell you why.
1:12.3	After his death, Jackie's widow, the great Rachel Robinson,
1:16.8	sought out Dr. Arnold Rappersad to write her husband's biography,
1:21.7	drawing from access to his private notes and papers.
1:25.3	Rappersad had previously written the definitive stories of such
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