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Tracing The Path
"cuban giants" Discussed on Tracing The Path
"Back a few years. Nineteen forty six at the end of world. War two kennesaw landes. The first commissioner of baseball passed away and happy chandler. The governor of kentucky resigned and took his place chandler was for the integration of baseball in his biography. He wrote that he couldn't in good conscience. To- black men. They couldn't play baseball when they just fought for their country the next year. Nineteen forty seven. Chandler approved the contract landing. Jackie robinson on the brooklyn dodgers a landmark moment in american sports after jackie robinson. The floodgates opened and many teams integrated taking players from college. The negro leagues cuba and other latin american countries. Willie mays roy. Campanella ernie banks satchel page hank. Aaron and edmund. Sandy morose were all early major league players. After integration edmundo's sandy morose was from cuba. Sadly integration spelled. The end of the negro leagues black team owners were left in a pickle. They certainly didn't wanna stop players from playing in the major leagues but they also didn't want to lose their teams their culture their life rube foster former pitcher for the cuban giants. And head of the negro lead said this about jackie robinson's integration. A big part of black life was over and where we had whole teams to root for now we had one player the end of the black leagues didn't change much for the cuban league the merely switched to playing the minor league ball clubs in the us. In fact the havana. Sugar kings started the year. Jackie robinson signed in nineteen fifty five. The cuban people experience something they never had before a live broadcast of a. Us baseball came well. Cuba was the first latin american country to get tv live. International broadcasts were unheard of but this one was special. It was the nineteen fifty five world series. Pitting the dodgers against the yankees. The dodgers had jackie robinson. Sandy colfax tommy lasorda roy. Campanella and cuba zone at mundo. Sandy amoros that live broadcast was made possible by outfitting. Coupon airline dc three with lee relay transmission equipment and flying it in circles between key west and havana for four hours. A sign of the technology. Hungry cuban.
Tracing The Path
"cuban giants" Discussed on Tracing The Path
"He went on to become the first latin american player to play in the major leagues but despite the ban cubans continued to play and form the first cuban league in eighteen. Seventy eight bringing esteban back to cuba playing for club havana. The cuban league played from november to may making it a great winter league for us players so esteban could play in both cuba's plea independence got some unsolicited help. When the us began the spanish american war in eighteen ninety eight at the defeat of spain. Po rico cuba the philippines and guam. Were ceded to the. Us for twenty million dollars and cuba was free from spanish rule that brought new opportunities for them to play. Us teams just a year later. Cuban teams started to allow black players to play in their league thus began the integration of baseball by the eighteen eighty s black amateurs and professional leagues had formed. The east coast scene had grown the most with philadelphia being the center of the baseball universe. Well the philly area. It wasn't always easy to get permits to play so camden new jersey across the river. So a good number of games as well. The cuban giants had of newark. Were the first professional black team. Sadly choosing that name because white spectators were more inclined to watch cubans than blacks and their success led to the first negro league. The national colored baseball league in eighteen eighty seven. Eighteen ninety cubans were playing american teams in american teams. Were playing cuban teams thus both teams were allowing players from the other league to play on their team for several years. They played without incident other than seeing the rise and demise of many teams over the years but in nineteen fourteen world war. One put a crimp in the rise of baseball in the us. The need for workers in the northern states to replace soldiers sent abroad created a migration of blacks from the us south to the north and in cuba. It caused forests to be chopped. Down to make way for sugarcane and core production and for this. They needed workers at the end of the war. It was the former pitcher of the cuban giants rube foster who pushed to get baseball going again. In one thousand nine hundred twenty therefore a new negro national league was started with rube foster as the president it was only a couple of years before in eastern and southern league started and the first colored world series was played in nineteen twenty four. The negro league games were very successful often seeing attendance higher than major league games even when played on the same day.
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"cuban giants" Discussed on Good Seats Still Available
"And they did pretty well like from out of the gate right. So we haven't really talked about. This is their play on the field. we'll get to some of their stars that are more memorable in a few minutes but You know this is a team. That's quickly if not already gaining some good reputation for being a pretty strong quality franchise for a lot of reasons. They were very strong team. And i i think they were the dominant team I think there needlessly overlooked today You know when people talk about the negro leagues. I think the average person can name the kansas city. Monarchs homestead grays pittsburgh crawford. Those are the threes and hildale was consistently probably in the twenty s probably the most dominant teams in the nineteen twenties. But there are just not not remembered today and they should be The league itself and it was put together and twenty three as you said it was it was it was compact So they had teams. It was just right up the east coast. They had a team in new york. They have the new york lincoln. Lincoln giants They had the baltimore blocks socks. They had the Brooklyn royal giants and that was strong's team and there was controversy putting them in there because strong own that team and also do the booking for for for the other league teams foster and foster like but we'll get. It seems to par for the course around that time Yes and let's only one two three four human star thank you. The cuban stars are interesting and they were another controversial aspect of the negro leagues. The cuban stars you know they were. They were from cuba and they were cuban africa african of african descent players But they tended not to have their own playing field so the cuban stars would be a travel team they would. They would simply travel from place to place and that that would lead to controversy because other league teams would say well. They have no expenses at all. They just come to other people's parks and take money because you know that's it So they were that that was an issue there were. There were various times when cuban stars. Some weeks tried to get them apart to play in like when you go way into the forties and we'd be jumping ahead They put them at the polo grounds because the polo grounds were. Not you know when the new york times where it using the polo grounds. The cuban giants started using the polo grounds as their home field. But in the twenties the cuban giants tended not to have a park of their own and they were just travel so they were another part of part of this of this league. So that's sixty six now to new york three to new york giants one three hildale four blocks five and the six six.
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The national colored baseball league was organized. Strictly as a minor league but failed in eighteen. Eighty seven after only two weeks because of low attendance and because blacks were not being accepted into the majors and minor league baseball leagues due to racism. They formed their own teams. The first known baseball game between two black teams was held on november. The fifteenth eighteen fifty nine in new york city. The hanson baseball club of jamaica queens defeated the unknowns of weeks ville brooklyn fifty four to forty three. The first known professional black baseball player was bud. Fowler and in some ways blackball as it was called at the time thrived under segregation with a few black teams of the day playing. Not only each other but white teams as well. Black teams earned the bulk of their income playing with independent. White semi pro clubs. So we're gonna be talking about the negro leagues with reginal howard. This hour. He played second base in the negro leagues with the indianapolis clowns in the nineteen fifties Howard was born and raised in south. Bend indiana had two brothers and a sister in baseball was big in their family. His father was a tailor and also in the dry cleaning business. He grew up as a batboy and he was the batboy at several negro league all star games in the late nineteen forties and he has some amazing stories from growing up alongside. These stars and the negro players all had nicknames. We're gonna talk to him about those nicknames. And how they came about and he had a couple of interesting quotes as well he wants said about major league baseball integration. At the time. I was elated. I was just happy because you know as a child you view things one way but then when you become an adult you view them another way and he also said there were some aspects of branch rickey and what he did that as an adult. I don't like very well so we'll find out what they were as we talked original howard.