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Awards Chatter
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"So it is it's a couple of you know, it's a serious it's a serious movie idea we've been developing about a judge in Mississippi that I want to play. And I think this is great. This kind of a person that I think is a lot like me. And but then I love the bingo longs and traveling all stars. I don't know how you make a 19 Afro. I mean, a Negro League baseball movie nowadays where it can make sense to you. It's so far. It's a good doc, actually. Have you heard about the league? It's Sam Pollard, I think, is this filmmaker. And Magnolia is put out. It's really good about the Negro League. You made me think about it. That'd be great. But I love I love that kind of slice of culture stuff. It's more fun, more, you know, less to do with, you know, the kind of oppression of the 70s, but more like people figure it figured it out and how to live it and be and had lives. And I love that that that part of our culture where we know we see how we see ourselves and not necessarily, you know, the the atrocities that we've had lived through. Last question. You know, I don't know how often you you're a busy guy, so I don't know how often you get a chance to kind of reflect on how, you know, like we've done over the last hour, just on how far you've come from where it began, what you've done. Just now that we're talking about it and thinking about it, just what do you make of it? It's a pretty amazing story for a guy who, you know, would have been content, it sounds like, to go to the fame kind of school. I mean, it's it's worked out. And what did you say? Your mom said you were a some kind of dream scheming of a dream. Well, it worked. Yeah, exactly. No, it's so true, man. I think, you know, I definitely feel very blessed to have had the career that I've had. You know, I always pride myself on being able to do a number of things. Of course, you know, I've had an opportunity to direct, you know, I'm toying with some music, you know, like all these things is like, hey, give it a shot. Just try it, man. So, you know, and of course, you just always want to kind of, you know, continue to push and be creative. I love the fact that, you know, you recognize. And it was we were talking about this the other day, how when we were young, somehow 50 seemed really old. We like when someone's 50, like, oh, my God. But now you recognize, like, like the opportunity to get up every day and still have great opportunity in front of you. You just don't feel like you're winding down. You feel like you're turning up. And so that's that's how I feel with everything that I've done in the past. I still feel like, yo, I got so many things I could do and go forward and live to and strive for. And, you know, youth is definitely a thing that, you know, people take great pride and have it because you feel like I get to live forever. And sometimes you get you get a little older and start to think like it's over and maybe I'm going to be winding down. But, you know, I'm turning it up. So that's how I feel right now. I'm having a great time. Thank you so much for doing this. Appreciate it. Thank you, brother. This is awesome. Until next time, thanks again for tuning in.
Northwest Newsradio
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Northwest news radio. The northwest news time 6 O 9 and now for something a little sweeter. Our recent summer like weather has Yakima valley cherry growers optimistic about this year's harvest. The Yakima Herald republic reports agriculture leaders are predicting a return to normal conditions with high quality fruit and solid yields This following last year's harvest that was down about a third after a cold spring in April snowfall, several growers believed the spring weather has been just right this far and hope for good conditions through the harvest season. The northwest cherry growers board predicts a harvest of nearly 20 million boxes up from just over 13 million last year. Kathy O'Shea, northwest news radio. Northwest news time 6 ten time to check in with Bill Schwartz for a Beacon plumbing sports update, UW softball celebrating the miracle on Mont Lake. Kim and Rick for all the world it looked like Washington's fine season was coming to an end Sunday trailing mcneese state 6 zero in the final inning of their NCAA region final. By Washington stage they dramatic rally in that inning and got a win 7 to 6. So now you double host the super regional next weekend against Louisiana. The Mariners are back from a four and 5 baseball journey dropping Sunday's finale to Atlanta three two. The ems now entertained the Yale's worst team ten win Oakland and athletics franchise with a lot of negatives. Broadcaster Glenn Kuiper today was fired by NBC sports California after he made a racial slur on air about his trip to the Negro leagues baseball museum. The Seahawks today kicked off a voluntary organized team activity in Renton back after one season in LA as number 54 middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, while players come and go, the vmac and the Seahawks way is the same. Pretty much not too many people that you play with, you know, when I first got here, but you know, there's some familiar spaces still and I still understand that the whole vibe and the whole culture here
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Makes the epic and historic announcement that it was recognizing the Negro leagues for exactly what we already knew to be a major league. And that had a ripple effect. You know, so all of a sudden, I think the engagement around the Negro leagues and the Negro leagues baseball museum, even though we were in the midst of this worldwide pandemic, the engagement around the museum started to grow. And so while the corporate support for our museum suffered tremendously because you got to take care of people. Health and Human Services absolutely moved to the forefront. Cultural institutions like the Negro league baseball museum get pushed a little bit on the back burner. But surprisingly, because of the level of engagement, we saw our individual support. Grow three, fourfold, and we were able to do things with the Major League Baseball teams that even heightened that engagement because they didn't add at most to do. You know they didn't have all the stuff they would normally have to do. And so we were able to absolutely capitalize on a situation that seems so dire initially. And like I said, we've been building on that momentum. We riding that wave of momentum. We get to bug being voted in and now buck O'Neill is leading what would have happened in 2020. Spiritually leading this effort right now. And so we are preparing to launch another significant fundraising effort you may have seen the amazing release of the animated shorts that we did with Major League Baseball. First ever series of animation on the Negro leagues that we did in partnership with Major League Baseball and the epic announcement of the inclusion of Negro leaguers in the Sony PlayStation video game, MLB, the show 23. And this too has had a ripple effect. You know, I'm so far removed from the gaming stage, you know, busting red I was playing on the video game, it was Atari. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I've had that conversation with my son. You know, try to explain to him Pong. You moving across slowly across the screen. So before I ask you about satchel page, tell me about how people can help if they want to help. Yeah, no, we welcome the support.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"And we've been operating steadily ever since. And I tell the story all the time. We were in the we were right in the mist buster of launching our 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Negro leagues. And this was going to be a major undertaking for the museum, a yearlong celebration. We were going to have a major fundraising campaign, built around the anniversary. We announced it on February 13th of 2020 with Major League Baseball and the Players Association represented there. And 30 days later, everything comes to a screeching hope. Just by that, I don't go coronavirus. And I'll tell you, I still don't know what a coronavirus is. I just know it wreak havoc, but as I also oftentimes talk about this as a steward of this story, you know you are not allowed to wallow in self pity. Right. That would be doing a tremendous disservice to those who call the Negro leagues home. But as I oftentimes say, there was some wallowing going on. Now, that was definitely some wallowing going on, man, because we had built this entire yearlong celebration. This was going to be the thing that was going to propel the Negro leagues baseball museum into the future. And all of a sudden, you feel so helpless. But also, and I use a terrible baseball analogy to describe coronavirus. Coronavirus buster was that big nasty right hander that threw one high and tight knocked you down and so you know you got to get back up. You got to dust yourself off and you got to get back in the baddest box and try to figure out how you gonna hit this sucker. And that's exactly what we were able to do and we launched a virtual campaign called tip your cap to the Negro leagues and the campaign goes viral and then all of a sudden the feeling of doom and gloom that was surrounding me at our museum turned to renewed hope and optimism. It's about resiliency and the story of the Negro leagues, the crux of it. It's about resiliency that resilience spirit that basically allow them to refuse to accept the notion that they were unfit to play this game. So I'll show you. And we had to channel that kind of resiliency and we were able to do that and to be honest, we had one of the best years in recent museum history became out of COVID in 2020 and we've been writing that wave every since. With buck O'Neill going into the national baseball Hall of Fame, which I did not think was going to happen. You know, this was an improbable event that took place when buck is voted in and then last year, of course, being inducted into the national baseball Hall of Fame. So let me ask you one of those lines as you were talking, I was thinking about, you know, the Texas Rangers sort of lived in a parallel universe as you in so to speak because they open up a new ballpark in 2020 was going to be the year that they were going to sort of relaunch their franchise, right? And they didn't have an opportunity to do that. And they still have been trying to recover, which is why you've seen them spend big money on Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon and Bruce bochy and Jacob de Grom, and they're clearly sort of trying to relaunch that. Did you guys have any discussions about somehow relaunching the idea of the hundredth anniversary? Because I remember being excited about that. If there's some form or some way to do that. Yeah, and we all were, but again, even though we couldn't do all of the events that were during that year, think about what happened in December of 2020. Major League Baseball
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"A all star Negro league baseball player and starting point guard for the most famous team ever the famous New York column runs of the 20s. Which were arguably the best fastball team in the world for 15 years. He was starting point guide for him and then in the summer he was all star in the legally. That's pretty good very good. That's pretty good. So anyway, it was a good evening and I'm just going to next year. There's only one shoe in next year. And then I think he's a shoe, and would you agree to manage an oblique? Should the issue win? Yeah, because he was such a internationally remember in history. They get the reason that the dino rashes and the Tony cucu coaches. Tony kukoc was also from a committee. And so the reason the reason that they get the extra pushes, they have the international cachet. This is a one size fits all Hall of Fame. In which we have abducted weed, you know, have inducted people who were primarily almost exclusive. Last question Schmidt for example was in, actually, he never claimed a second in the NBA. He's the all time leading international sport. You know, and it was a very near and dear to my heart. And so anyway, a man who knows was going to walk in, I think, because of any reason with this dual cachet of this international resume and his NBA resume. Yeah, I mean, he'll be the one and then I don't see anybody else. I mean, Joe Johnson, Zachary. No way. Terry Richard Jefferson a couple former Arizona players. No way. Josh Smith, Al Jefferson, no. I think we're looking at one former NBA player. It's gonna be manual and then whatever else they're gonna come up. So it's gonna be interesting next year. It's not going to be star studded. There's no way around it. But but they do a nice job and also they found that they found a new partner mohegan sun and the Hall of Fame have become, you know, very sympathy. So will every so what is everything held in mohegan sundown? No, what they did was that in May, everything was there. And once again, the first mic is the honorees of the gaudy awards and the manage action human Spirit Award, which is and it's a dinner and then the ceremony. But.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"negro league baseball" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Is the first and only major leaguer whose last name ends an X in the history of the game. About that. How about that? That's a bad information on Mr Hendricks that have been several whose last names have ended with X. None have started with X. No one has ever had. Name. Starting with that Your last name I believe is the Is the correction he was attempting to make and then also is not correct. Apparently, that's not right either. No, I guess I guess it was until major league baseball began recognizing the Negro leagues because there is a a Negro League baseball player who who's last name began with X Xavier or something like that. You know, it was gonna look it up if you contact save your navy, but that first name last name their last name Well. But if you go to baseball reference, there is nobody listed in the X category. So in his defense, he at least he was right about that, According to baseball reference, the last name starts with X corrected they in baseball reference. They rank them by last name. And in the X category. There's nobody I can't speak to. If there's a first name that starts with that there's been, uh seven. Xander Bogaerts still playing for the Red Sox? Xavier Avery, Xavier Cedeno, Xavier Hernandez, Xavier Navy, Xavier Paul and Xavier Scruggs was the first name with the X correct but no last name so no one named Xavier ever in the major league baseball with the last name Xavier out, Guess not, That's interesting or xylophone. Yeah, it's a different or X ray. So where does where does that rank amongst chip carry mistakes. Well, that's got to be these top three strings have won the division four times since 2000 and.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"negro league baseball" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Bill Lasky and Terry Crowley on these sports leader fans. I'm happy to have an author with us this morning. His name is Bob Luke. He's the author of three books, including The Baltimore E Light Giants. Sported society in the age of Negro League baseball, and he's written numerous articles on the history of baseball and the Negro Leagues. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland. He's got a very, very important book out. It's called the most famous woman in baseball. Half a manly and the Negro Leagues, Bob, Welcome to the show. How are you? Good, Marty. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Well, I'm very happy to have you. You know, we've done so many stories about Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey and different things about baseball. But F A manly is the only woman in the baseball Hall of Fame and I'm not talking about writers and broadcasters. She is in the In the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and she really is an amazing story and amazing woman prior to World War two during World War two. And an integral part of the Gro League Baseball. Um, glad to have you with us and that to tell you tell the story of f A manly and go ahead, Bob. Why? Why did you choose this subject? Well as I was doing a couple of the other Negro late books, her name kept popping up as the only woman managing and they grow weak team going to meetings with owners getting in fights with sportscasters trying to make the Negro Leagues business. Respectable operation. Um s O. I thought she'd be an.
Good Seats Still Available
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Good Seats Still Available
"These people including an ed bolden maybe on overlooked on a number of different levels for because when you bring up sort of the the the great depression right i mean. I think it's pretty. You know most most people sort of had this sort of naive thinking that you know twenty nine stock market crash in the early and mid thirties. Worse just you know. It was a lot more sophisticated and or slower motion than that right. I mean you're you're hinting. At at some of the issues in the african american community where a lot of those issues were actually more pronounced before this stock market crash on wall street right and the the rest of the country. Essentially sort of seeing it on a grander scale as the thirties. So i you know to me this particular time hildale specifically but negro leagues and all of sports. generally right. this is this is this is like a huge chasm. that's all foist upon something fledgling. I mean the nfl relatively new at the time in football right you know gritted teeth figured out ways to kind of survive major league baseball kinda did too but know the negro leagues which were relatively hodgepodge not sort of paradigm of stability. At least not yet. Didn't sort of have those resources and couldn't absorb such a significant shock. But i you wonder what would have happened. I mean there was no problem. It seemed with hilda playing baseball right. I mean there were pretty damn good team. I mean six count them. You know major league all stars. And that's you know that's even before major league baseball sort of if you will modern day recognition right so maybe send me some more to come. I guess i've just i it's a head scratcher as to. It seems like it's relatively easy to put the blame on on the great depression. But i wonder how hildale could have been successful should had it have been either more stronger organization that they were part of or had the depression not been as severe. But i guess that's a question you could ask about a lot of teams in and around that time. That didn't sort of wind up getting up off the canvas. Well here's the thing to your listeners. Might find interesting. The negro leagues their home games were virtually african american supported. I mean survey did not get blocks fans in the seat. They just could not survive Yes there were some white fans who would go at various times in the history of negro leagues. But i mean the bread and butter for the year elite teams worthy black fans and in the thirties early thirties. Particularly i mean the fans just just completely disappeared as as i have some figures in my book. I mean it's almost unbelievable and you see you know the the attendance for some of their their final games. It's like one hundred and thirty four people showing up to twenty nine people i mean and and only a few years earlier to rejoin two and three thousand in the in the in the twenties so they just cannot afford to to go to games and one thing that i got into in the second book. I did negro league baseball in the thirties. It's it's almost a miracle..
Good Seats Still Available
"negro league baseball" Discussed on Good Seats Still Available
"So i'm guessing bolden then is is starting to recognize that you know we got to be more control of our own destiny so to speak and if we can't sort of sort of get over the current process then perhaps maybe we should. We should perhaps take our marbles and go elsewhere with them right. So i i guess. How would you describe the team in the negro national league in those early years. And then the i guess what. It was the buildup to a more dedicated eastern league that they jumped to or help create and nineteen. Twenty-three i mean i'm guessing that bolden saw that foster had put something together. I mean ear. National inc was flawed. Don't get me wrong But the early years of the ingraham. We're probably some of the best run. Negro leagues ever as far as the number of games played the attention to the schedule and statistics and things like bad and they did relatively well. I mean the twenties fairly strong twenties fairly strong period financially for negro league baseball so i think bowling probably saw that. There's there is more money to be made and something else was happening to which we can touch on. His semi professional baseball was slowly starting to fade as far as it being able to pay Hildale had made its money as we talked earlier by playing all white teams during the week. He's white semi pro teams and they could make a decent amount of money doing that but by the early twenties they're starting to die off. There's many complex reasons for why it was having people say radio was part of the reason why these local teams start stayed So i think bolden probably said okay. We can't totally survive on the way we were before with with the reliance on these wight semi pros have to replace that with more games played against professional teams in league situation. So i think that's what pushed him to form the eastern colored league at the end of nineteen twenty to nineteen twenty three season and some your listeners might find it interesting the the choice of words you know you have the negro national league and the eastern colored league..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"negro league baseball" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"And, uh, the fact that his roots we're talking about one of somebody even idea the greatest Major league baseball player of all time. That is roots of firmly entrenched in the Negro leagues. Starting as an 18 year old kid leaving Mobile Alabama to go join the Indianapolis clowns in 1952, as you mentioned Skinny, cross handed hitting shortstop. When Mr Allen's case, he was a right hand hitter who was hitting with his left hand on top. That, of course, is enough to doctor the fears that you break your wrist Sitting in that matter, Henry Aaron was not going to cover off the baseball in a highly unorthodox fashion when he gets to the clouds that good right hand on top. And the rest, As we say is history. So, yeah. So for so many who come to the museum, there's this wonderful, almost non descript photograph of him. Standing at the train station about to go leave to join the Indianapolis cloud. He must have weighed 100 and 50 £160 you know at that time, and he looks a little bit afraid. And yet there was also kind of look like okay, he's destined for greatness. You know, and he has a bag, a little duffle bag at his foot. And he told me says, Bob, I may have had Changes of clothes in that bag. Dollar 50 cents in my pocket and a ham sandwich that my mama had made me going to go chase that dream. It worked out pretty well for the happen. That's a great story. Bob Kendrick joins us this morning on the show, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. How about the staff that Hank Air and you could take away all 755 of his home runs? You still have 3000 hits. I mean, how amazing of a baseball player and a hitter was Hank Aaron. Great here a great here too, And I think sometimes that gets often overlooked. Because of the home run. Actually, That's one of the most remarkable stats of all take all seven. Unfit five home. Other ways still has over. 3000 hits his total base record. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we'll never be broken. His R B I record will likely never be broken. He was a great defensive outfielder. He didn't get his just due because he played the corner outfield and you know, so he didn't play center field like really Did Willie the great lily bass? Ondo. That's the glamour position, but he always made the right throw. He always prided himself on being a student of the game. Steady. Good game just did everything right. He could still bases. You could still the whole lot more bases. You know if you wanted to. The Braves really didn't want him to steal a whole bunch of bases on, so he just did everything great. He was just a model and a pillar of consistency. But his numbers will never truly define who Henry Aaron Woz. Henry Aaron just happen to be one of the greatest human beings that ever walked the face of dessert. We'll just have to be one of the greatest baseball player. You ever walked the face of this earth on so what? We look at Henry Aaron to civil rights icon. Henry Aaron to philanthropist, humanitarian Henry Aaron, who dedicated his life. To try and help those who have been marginalized in this country gain equality on and that's the Henry Aaron that you know I will remember. And it's also the Henry and that the kid from Georgia got a chance to share again. Ah, platter of Gates, barbecue ribs with them every time he saw me, and he and his wife would say You didn't bring me the real review. A great life lived. Hank Aaron, one of the greatest life's ever lived Hank Aaron, and one of the great things about the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is that the community and the city of Kansas City Completely embraces it. And Buck O'Neil So many people around the country Remember Buck and his smiling face part of the baseball documentary by Ken Burns, and he was such a face of the museum, but the museum has picked up steam every year and every decade. And you've seen that and you've been front and center for that. Patrick Mahomes recently is really adopted it as one of his own as well placed that he loves going to baseball teams come into town to play the Royals. They often times will go there. Football teams well coming into play the chief's what type of evolution has the museum gone through in recent years? It's been amazing. It really asked. I mean, you think about this local grassroots organization that started a tiny one room office in 1990. Historic 18 design, and Kansas City wants a very problem, prominent African American community during that era of segregation, But like a lot of communities it had died, and here comes little Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to not on Lee Come along to preserve and celebrating, educate this piece of baseball and Americana that few folks knew anything about, but also at the same time, try and resurrect. This wonderful community that had a kind of died and when we started Buck O'Neil and other local Negro leaders who were still with us at that time that say they passed on. There's not a single player left in Kansas City. They literally took turns paying the monthly rent to keep that little office open. And with it our hopes and dreams of one day building a facility that would pay rifle tribute to not only one of the great chapters in baseball history, but what now? Thousands and thousands of visitors each and every year..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"negro league baseball" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"See me? Yes. Fun. Sports flag. All right, J. R Patrick Mahomes is coming off the worst game of his young and so far brilliant NFL career. He will not waste time looking to bounce back. Step one. Surgery. Holmes play through this discomfort of a turf toe injury in the Super Bowl. He sustained that injury in the divisional round playoff game against the Browns. He undergoes surgery on Wednesday to repair that injury expected to make a full recovery by training camp. Long time NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer has died. 1 200 regular season games eighth all time coached in Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego. Shot. Khyber was 77. The Nets were without Kevin Durant because of health and safety part of calls, but still we're expected to handle the Pistons. Instead, a lifeless Brooklyn lost to Detroit. 1 22 1 11 Steve Nashes postgame message to his team personal pride. Activity and coming together. Just resistance way can't start the game down. 10 be down 20 in the second half. I'm expecting you to come easy. Instead, the Nets come away with their third straight loss. The Utah Jazz have won 15 of 16 looking to improve the 20 and five on the season. They're playing the Celtics. Trailing that game late first quarter 27 to 19 Trailblazers lead the Magic 28 13 lead the first quarter in the fourth is the Warriors on top of the Spurs, 91 to 76. Pelicans won their fourth of the road. They beat Houston 1 30 to 1 on one and the Heat beat the Knicks for the second time in three days. 98 to 96. Tuesday night's game between the Capitals and flyers postponed because of covert issues. Affecting the Flyers. Former Flyers goalie Ron Hextall has been named the new general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Couple of NHL finals, Oilers beat the Senators 32 Panthers, too. Red Wings one College Basketball. Alabama be South Carolina 81 to 78, West Virginia is playing Texas Tech leading to 53 49 11 15 to go on by Buesseler Hey, guys! D A tomorrow morning president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"negro league baseball" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Totally Names like Shorty. And what's the other one little little little shooting until they learn from their dad leave onto they would fit in great New Jersey to its nicknames like that. Oh, God, so but number there's no way I could resist the burn ends. I mean you coming at me. I know how good that Kansas City barbecue is. And I do love crabs too. I love crab cake copes just like you. But I think I love barbecue even more, So I gotta go. Casey on this one. Okay. There you go. All right. Category number two. Well, you know, we talk about culture right in the pop culture shouting we show down, So you have to have a cultural outing in each town like what would you do to experience the flavor of each town? Like if I want to go somewhere in that town? Right? Well in Kansas City, you know where we're going. We've had Bob Kendrick on this show. How many times? Yeah, the president of the Negro League Baseball Museum. I offer you Kansas City's finest. This is a tribute from the All Star Game a couple years ago when it was in Kansas City coach was at the game. Kansas City Negro League Baseball Museum. Kansas City may serve as the backdrop for today's All Star game, but understand that in 1920 right here on the corner of 18th and Paseo, the first step was taken towards the integration of baseball in America Roof lost a letter contention. Of eight independent black baseball team owners into Kansas City and 1920 then met at the old Brazil Y M C. A. He was serving notice to Major league baseball that a new player Had arrived on the scene. Six years before the catch in the 1954 World Series. Willie Mays played in the Negro League World Series for the Birmingham Black Baron's Every time. I think, Abi think about guys hitting balls much farther than guys in the majors. You got to understand they wouldn't looking at the Negro League at that time. So there you go, guys,.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"negro league baseball" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Miami Marlins general manager Kim Hang made history as the first woman and the first Asian American general manager. Major League Baseball. And shattered one of the few glass ceilings that exist in major league baseball for women. She stands on the shoulders of another woman named F A Manly who 85 years ago, triumphed as a baseball executive and became the first and only woman to envy inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A new book called Baseball's Leading Lady. F. A Manly and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues. Author Andrea Williams tells the remarkable story of F A Manly, the owner and co manager of the Newark Eagles, a team she cultivated into a powerhouse. She also explores manly civil rights activism and the history of American baseball. Andrea Welcome to all of it. Hi. How are you? Good. So let's start with the fact that you are not only a baseball fan, you have worked professionally around the sport. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum know when you first heard about the life and learned about the career of F A manly What jumped out at you? What leapt out at you about her career. Yeah, I think the first thing was just that she had done. It was really just what she was able to accomplish in the thirties and forties. I started working active you them in the summer of 2004. I had just graduated with the sport management degree and By myself, working in a front office on myself, ultimately becoming a general manager of a major league baseball team. I wanted to work at a small market club and, you know, I had my own Moneyball aspirations. But at the time there was no one you know you mentioned in the intro Kim and what? Just becoming the first last year And so, you know, I would always say that. You know, I wanted to be the first but I really thought that Kim would beat me. Um And I don't know. I mean, I do know why it took so long One, but yes, see, Seen F um and what she accomplished back then was was really eye opening because a We didn't really know about it. You know, I just got my job at the museum and Up. Kendrick, who is the president now was giving me a cooler and, you know, I saw her picture in the corner and started asking questions and researching and reading and doing all the things and, Yeah, it was. It was remarkable because she had been owners, um, female owner his team before that they're you know, have been owners and Major League baseball and in the Negro leagues, but she Didn't just only team husband. She really handle the day to day did all the player contracts and negotiations or the equipment and manage the books and did all of the things that a general manager does. And she gave it back there. Open the book with a scene for the 1946 Negro World, Syriza and F Family's team. The North Eagles play and beat the Kansas City Monarchs. Why was this such a pivotal moment in her career and in baseball history? Yeah, it was. It was pivotal because of me. I'm sure I don't think she had. Why? No, she didn't have any. You know, she wasn't a little girl thinking of owning and operating a professional baseball team one day, but everything that she did. She did it to the degree. So if she's in based on now she wants to live. No, it matter that she, you know, Matter of fact celibate like she. She's been struggling. All this part 200 steam, You know, having having a professional team hard anyway, But doing it in black baseball was that much harder. You know, Budgets were tight, You know, they didn't. They didn't have their own stadium, very few black owners on their own stadium, so they were giving up. Hefty portion of gate receipts every single game to the white teams that they rented stadium space from so everything was always such a struggle. And so it was finally like, yes, this is this is what it was all for. It also missed it. Now, when you're the top team, right gate receipts go up because now people want to come see the best of the best to play in that team. Hurt. Here We really go goes on it. Larry Doby, who became the first black player in the American League following Jackie, who was first in the nationally he was on that team, one of efforts players Oh, yeah, It is a big deal. You know, Now that we see that, um Major League Baseball is element you know, has elevated the status of the peace Negro League players. You know that All of those guys were doing it on a professional level, and they were champions. My guess is Andrea Williams. They've her book is baseball's leading lady F A manly and the rise and fall of the Negro leaves. So in a little back background on efforts was born in Philadelphia, 18 97, and if you Google her her heritage has been debated for some time. Of and you write in your book that, according to US census records, her mother had at least some black heritage. And she and her mom and her half siblings lived his black Americans. She finds out later that her father Is white as the result of a relationship or affair, I guess how did she live in the world? And what impact did this have on the way she became involved in baseball and worked and lived in baseball. Yeah, As for definitely, um, you know, she took advantage of her fair complexion when she could when she needed to know she didn't interview later in life and talked about how you know if she was traveling alone, she would say in a white hotel or either the white only restaurant. Um, but I think that really that privilege is what enabled her to come back to Negro League baseball and say to it is boardroom in the In the conference is for the Negro National League. When she's surrounded by all of these black men and saying, OK, this is what we need to do..
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If you're ever in kansas city i urge you to stop by and take it in and of course i wanted to have bob on because the announcement was made by major league baseball that they finally decided to include the statistics from negro league baseball along with the major league baseball statistics. I saw quote. Bob that said by the time this stuff gets implemented and integrated with the regular major league data. The numbers will be a little bit different more complete. That's what we needed to have in baseball as well. What was your reaction to the announcement by major league baseball. It was exciting. I it really was. And although i'll be honest ronnie at my initial excitement when i first when i first caught wind of this because i was like a lotta people. I didn't even know about this. Nineteen sixty nine commission. That had lately. It's regarded the negro leagues at exactly what it is a major leads and so someone wrote about it and then it started to kind of pick up some traction and there was these questions swirling around about it and when it reach me and the thought that major league baseball in some way shape form fashion would be validating the players from the negro leagues and i took a little offensive that initially because i knew so many of these players. That's that's true. Did you know how proud they were. They knew how good they were. And they know how good their legalize and so they never sought validation from anyone and that was kinda my position but there had to be really look outside of myself and start to think about what this man from a historical perspective even beyond the numbers. And i know people will be enamored with stats because that's baseball but for me. The status only contextual. You never be able to reduce the negro league suggest a pistol data. And so when i started to look at it for its historical marriage. Its historical significance. Hit really dawned on the just how big this could be. And then as as major league baseball was going through the process of making this decision they you know clue me in on what was going on and so i had time to prepare. You know knowing that this was going to happen and so but it was still man. It was such a tremendously proud day for me all of us at the negro leagues baseball museum. And honestly i think all of us who called negro leagues home in some way shape form. Fashion what does this do as far as telling the story of baseball overall in your mind bob well it helps remind people of how great these leaks were the negro leagues and courageous these athletes. Who as i like to say forced a glorious history in the midst of an inglorious time in american history. And i do think ron that it makes the work that we do here in kansas city at the negro leagues baseball museum. That much more meaningful. Because i don't want. I don't want to see happen. Is that twenty thirty years from now. A new baseball fan will look at these statistics and see this integration of all these players there and think that it was that way all the time. It is important that they understand that. These leagues were segregated. At one point in time it was bad. No necessarily desire of those black players that they weren't included in the major leagues and so they did indeed create their league and this league became a great league. And i don't want that to be lost but has it helped. You're listening to the heartland news.
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"Hey, listeners tensing A Vega is away and I'm Cindy Rodriguez from W. N. Y C pinch hitting for her this week. In December we brought you the story of Major League baseball, recently announcing it would officially give the Negro leagues major league status. That meant it would recognize the stats and records of the roughly 3400 black players who played in the Negro Leagues from 1922 1948. Since we brought you that news. We've gotten a more personal take on the story. My name is Dennis Bill of former Negro League Baseball player. Played 1933 and 30 forward to Chicago. American Jack Dennis is also president of Yesterday's Negro League Players Foundation. He's also author of the book Secrets of the Negro Baseball League, As told by Dennis Biddle. Our friend Callie Crossley, who hosted last week on the takeaway got a chance to sit down with little a few days ago to reflect on the moment, I think is a great thing to happen now. Should have happened years ago. You know, I think about those old players that have Past own. They would have enjoyed the fact that they're being equal to something they already knew and couldn't do anything about it. What they're doing. It's a start, which is great recognizing those great ballplayers that did not have the opportunity. To display their talents in the major league because of the color of our skin. So because they're only recognizing the states and records from 1922 1948. How will the numbers add up then? Because we're not going to know about the stats of the players who came after, and that's where it should have just said, recognizing players that played in the Negro Baseball League as equal to the players and the majorly because they were we were and we couldn't do anything about it. We can only Play each other on the game that we love. We had to strap to be better just to prove how great we really are work. I think of those all the players that prepared us to younger players. They went to a lot and and had nothing to look forward to. We knew we had a chance with jacket opening the door. But before then they had no chance. And that's what really bothers me when I say it's OK about the stats, But these men that live in now and we have a least 40 players still living around the country that Played in the fifties. The league did not end in 48. It ended in 1960. So since you played in the later years, 1953, can you tell me a little bit about your time playing in the league? Yes, that came in during the time when I knew I was being prepared for the major league, But he's older guys. You see what happened after Jackie Open the door? Most of the guys that was too old to go in at that time. Became coaches, trainers, managers and owners at that time, and they were prepared a younger player for the major leg that this is something that was handed down to me. These men that gave so much to tell the game of baseball donor recognition that they could get would be to say I prepared Hank Aaron for the major leagues, Hank Aaron 100 Banks and Willie Mays and many, many more that This is all the contribution that they felt that they had to the game of baseball because they had no other recourse. How did they prepare you? You were quite young when you played a game in over 17 years old, right out of high school, and no scouts scouted me. I'm from Arkansas Love town in Arkansas. Pitched a no hitter and I was recognized by booking agent from the Negro Baseball leagues. You asked me. How would you like to play in a neat row? Baseball? Only I knew nothing about the Negro Baseball League. But I have to go from my hometown 1000 miles to Chicago, the play in the Negro Baseball League and I'm grateful for the fact that that happened because I learned a lot about life. I was only 17 years old and I never forget Players like double Do Direct Cliff and James Bell it calling to Papa Bell. And they put their arms around a younger player and a pad off. But what make come in other words, we had a chance to go to the major league. And I'm appreciative of that the day and I know that's why years later became president of it of a foundation that was set up your to recognize the living players of the Negro Baseball League. So you met Jackie Robinson. Can you tell us about? Yes, I became a free agent with the Chicago Cubs in 1955 amid Jackie. We had dinner together downtown Chicago along with Ernie Banks and Jean Baker and Rock Campanella, and I'll never forget that and I read about it. I know we had gone through and the Negro League because I I going through a two years myself, but when he said he said, kid they cannot write in the book are showing a movie. What I went through. And being young man like up men today that I wanted to go back home to Mama. You know, I couldn't understand the treatment we would get in and I said to him, Mr Robinson, did you ever think about quitting Because I did. He said. Son. I thought about it every day, he said. But I had made a promise that I will open the door. So other young black men player will be able to play in the major Lee. Jack. You told that to me? That's something that always be a part of me. And do you feel the MLB decided to finally make this announcement to include the Negro leagues now because it's been 100 years or because of the racial uprisings or both reasons. I organized along with show Brewer. We organized yesterday's Negro League Baseball Players Foundation and 1996. At that time, it was 300. And 14 of us still living around the country with no recognition and you know the players. They didn't know what to do. They just went off Look, jobs and things but Mr Brewer. He had been trying for years to get them together, which was a hard thing to do. Even today with the plant few players they're still living because someone that Come up and offer them $100 that don't sign autographs and do that they don't go. And you know they vulnerable to this kind of treatment. And Mr Brue always said, he said, if we stuck together as one, we will be a force to reckon with. Do you feel the MLB can compensate the players who are still alive or their families. I really do. I don't know how they could do it. But, you know, reparation is a hard thing to talk about the days, but those families should Be considered. I don't know how they could do it. I just want something right now for the players that are still living. I want the recognition. I want monetary. I want money that they're given these organizations that preserving our history. Give it to the players that are still living. Make them a part of it. 1919 98 I take the books. Seeley helped me. Yep, the organization get benefits both 79 player that was still living. They got the major league better pension front. But the criteria they said, we're four years in the Negro League, and most of the players were dead and gone. Some of your them did qualify. I accept Commissioner to Lord quite too. It took one year. If he would do that, that would include every player that still living it played in the Negro Baseball League, but I have not heard back from him after two letters to him. You think there's a chance that it could still happen, Given that there's a lot of attention to this move by the MLB. I'm hoping it will. Mr Biddle. Thank you so much for keeping the flame alive. Thank.
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"In december. We brought you the story of major league baseball recently announcing it would officially give the negro leagues major league status that meant it would recognize the stats and records of the roughly thirty four hundred black players who played in the negro leagues from nineteen twenty to nineteen forty eight. Since we brought you that news. We've gotten a more personal take on the story. Dennis la former negro league baseball player. Play one thousand nine hundred fifty. Three and fifty forward cargo american giants. Dennis is a former negro leagues player and president of yesterday's negro league players foundation. He's also the author of the book secrets of the negro baseball league as told by dennis. Biddle our friend callie. Crossley who hosted last week on the takeaway got a chance to sit down with bill a few days ago to reflect on the moment. I think it's a great thing to happen now. Should have happened years ago You know. I think about those players have passed on. They would have enjoyed being equal to something. They already knew and couldn't do anything about it. What they're doing a star which is great recognizing those great ball player did not have the opportunity to display their talents in the major league because of the color. Thus scam so because they're only recognizing the states and records from nineteen twenty to nineteen forty eight. How will the numbers add up then. Because we're we're not gonna know about the the stats of the players. Who came after and that's where it should have just said recognize and players that played in the negro baseball league as equal to the player in the major league. Because they were we were and we couldn't do anything about it. We can all play each other on the game that we loved. We had to strap to be better guest to prove hot. Greg we really are work. I think all players prepared officer young player they. They went through a lot and had nothing to look forward to. We knew we had a chance with jackie opening a door but before they had no chance. And that's what really bothers me when i say as okay about the stats but these men that live in now we have at least forty playoff still living around the country that played in the fifties. The league did not end in forty eight. It ended in nineteen sixty So since you played in the later years one thousand nine hundred fifty three. Can you tell me a little bit about your time playing in the league. Yes i came in on a time. When i knew i would be prepared for the major league. But he's older guy. You see what happened after. Jackie opened the door. Most of the guys. That was too old to go in at that. Time became coaches training managers and owners at that time and they were prepared a young player but a major league. This is something that was handed down to me. These men that gave so much to to the game of baseball the owner recognition that they could get would-be to say up pad hank aaron for the major leagues hank aaron banks and willie mays minute more than this is all the contribution that they felt that they had to the game baseball because they had no of course. How did they prepare you. You were quite young when you play our seventeen years old right out of high school and No scout scouted me. I'm from arkansas town in arkansas up. It's a no hitter. And i was recognized by a booking agent from the negro baseball league. Who asked me. How would you like to play in the row baseball. The i knew nothing about the negro baseball league. But i had to go from my hometown thousand miles of chicago the play in the negro baseball league and i'm grateful for the fact that that happened because i learned a lot about life. I was only seventeen years old. And i'll never forget players like double duty radcliffe and james belt at him to pompa bail and they put their arms around the young player and and and and for pad but what might come in other words. We had a chance to go to the major leagues. And i'm appreciative of that. Today and i noticed why years later. I became president of a foundation that was set up to recognize the living player of the negro baseball league. So you met jackie robinson. Can you tell us about yes. I became a free agent with the chicago cubs in nineteen fifty five amid jackie. And we had dinner together. Downtown chicago along with ernie banks and gene baker and roku manila. And i'll never forget that. And i read about it. I know we had gone through in the negro league. 'cause i don't do it two years myself. But when he said he said kia taking that writing a book or showing a movie. What i went through and being young man i got minuted. I i wanted to go back home to momma. I couldn't understand the treatment. We will get in. And i said to him mr robinson. Did you ever think about quitting. Because i did he said son. I thought about it every day. He said but i had made a promise that i will open a dose or other young black men play will be able to play in the major leagues jacket. Tola to me that something that always be a part of me and do you feel the lb decided to finally make this announcement to include the negro leagues now. Because it's been one hundred years or because of the racial uprisings or both reasons. I organized a lowest show brewer. We organize yesterday's negro league baseball player foundation and nineteen ninety. Six at that time was three hundred and fourteen of us still living around the country with no recognition and You know the players. They didn't know what to do. They just went off little jobs and things but mr brewer. He had been trying for years to get them together which was a hard thing to do even today with the player to player that still living because someone that come up off now now one hundred dollars but don't sign autographs and do the goal and you know they abon about to this kinda treatment and mr brewer always said he said if we stuck together as one we will be forced to reckon with. Do you feel the. Mlb can compensate the players who are still alive or their families. I really do. I don't know how they can do it. But you know reparation is a hard thing to talk about the days but those families should be considered. I don't know how they can do it I just want something right now. The players that are still living. I want some recognition. I won't monitor monitor that. They're giving these organization that opposed serving our history. Give it to the players still living. Make them a part of their and nineteen ninety nine eight. I a thanks to bush. Ceiling helped me help the organization get benefits. Seventy nine player. That were still living. They got the major league pension prone but the criteria that were four years in negro league and most of those players were dead and gone. Some a few of them did qualify. I asked commissioner to lord laura criteria to one year. If he would do that that would include every player that still living at played in the negro baseball league. But i have not heard back from him out to to. Do you think there's a chance that it could still happen. Given that there's a lot of attention to this move by the mlb. I'm hoping it will or mr bell..
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Baseball Rights a Wrong by Adding Negro Leagues to Official Records
"And on the year of its hundredth anniversary. Negro league baseball is being reclassified as a major league that means the stats of baseball greats. Like willie mays satchel page josh gibson and thirty four hundred. Other players will be incorporated into the official records of major league. Baseball in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine special commission added the records of six early leagues to the mlb books. Dating back to eighteen seventy six but it left out the negro leagues now with the help of the elias sports bureau. It's updating the books to include the negro leagues. mlb says it's correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history
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Major League Baseball officially elevates Negro Leagues to 'Major League' status
"It took decades to right a wrong But Major league Baseball will now update its official records to include the stats of thousands of players who were part of the Negro Leagues. NPR's Tom Goldman reports on this watershed moment in sports. The announcement comes during the 1/100 anniversary year of the start of the Negro leagues. It confirms what many already knew. The approximately 3400 players kept out of the segregated majors were, in fact, major league caliber ballplayers in 1969, an all white MLB committee gave major league status to six previous baseball leagues without considering the Negro leagues. Baseball now says that omission was clearly an error, MLB's official historian John Thorne, told the sports website. The ringer quote. It's both imperative and satisfying to see MLB admit to a mistake and try to write it. MLB now will launch a review of how to incorporate Negro League players statistics into the official. Major league record. Books. Tom Goldman NPR
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MLB Marks The 100th Anniversary Of The Negro Leagues
"Baseball is marking the anniversary of the Negro leagues created 100 years ago. The league's showcased black baseball players players who couldn't play on the major teams because of the color of their skin. Only a few members of the leagues are alive to celebrate the centennial Michigan radios, Doug Tribute spoke to the only surviving team owner and others about the legacy of the legendary leagues. In 1920 owners of independent black baseball teams from the Midwest gathered in Kansas City, Missouri. At that meeting they created the Negro National Leagues had no idea they were making history. They didn't care about making history. Bob Kendrick heads the Negro Leagues Baseball museum there, he says. Faced with segregation, black owners and players kept pushing for organized baseball. These athletes never cried about the social injustice. They went out and did something about so you won't let me play with you and I create my own And they did today. Stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but thousands of black and Latino players endured bigotry and racist taunts. It was Tear before the players at that time. Many Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that players try of them. They had nowhere to stay because of the discrimination, so they slept in the buses. And they couldn't go in places to eat so one person would go to the back door. When get food for all the players. Pedro Sierra pitched in the Negro leagues for several seasons in the 19 fifties. He grew up in Cuba and says it was tough to adjust to segregation and racism he saw in the US It wasn't easy to see all the problem with the raise. I know all about it, herb artist. But I hadn't experienced today. Sierra lives in New Jersey In 1954 he signed with the Indianapolis clowns at the age of 16. His salary was less than 5% of what white players were earning dollars a month a month, $100 a month. And I look back and say, Oh my God. Jackie Robinson played briefly in the Negro leagues. Then, in 1947 he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in Cleveland, Larry Doby became the first black player in the American League. Coming seasons brought many more signings. But many Forbes sympathizes with the many athletes who were good enough to play in the major leagues, but never got a shot. Unfortunately, some of the good players by the time the time Came. They were too old to play. The last league folded in the early 19 sixties, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum estimates there are about 100 former players still alive. Forbes is 88 worries about being one of the last left to tell the story. And I just want a if I'm worthy of represent and speaking about the Negro League because When I got involved, things was easier for me. Then it wass father one before me. Many Forbes will keep sharing her stories with younger generations and others will to Major League Baseball has a day to honor the league's set for next month. The museum has pushed back its year long celebration of the centennial to next year and renamed it Negro Leagues. 101
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