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ESPN Daily
"negro leagues" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"So here we are 75 years later and we think of Jackie Robinson as saint Jackie. Who can have an issue with him. But let's not forget, this is a contentious time right now when it comes to race relations in America. And in sports and even Jackie Robinson's legacy can be a target. It's one of the crazy things that I learned while reporting this piece was that last year at Jackie Robinson's birthplace in Cairo, Georgia. There was a plaque saying this is where the great Jackie was born. And the plaque was vandalized. One of the people we talked to was bob Kendrick. He's the president of the Negro leagues museum in Kansas City. This is what mister Kendrick told us about that incident. Someone defaced a plaque, someone very heinously fired a shotgun blast into the plaque, the plaque, of course, at his birthplace was this historical marker than it had damaged the marker so much that it could not be repaired. And so it was, again, another painful reminder of the prevalence of hate in our society. Certainly appears to be the case anyway. Mister Kendrick asked for the bullet ridden marker to be set to the Negro leagues museum as an artifact that's on display for people to look at. Because that tribute to Jackie Robinson that historical marker shot full of holes is sort of symbolizes that not only does America still have racial issues to work out, but so does baseball. And so Jesse, Jackie Robinson clearly had to be willing personally to have the sort of fortitude to withstand what would be an ongoing defacement and ongoing pushback against the history that he made, even decades after his death. And as the racial makeup of baseball is concerned in terms of just his practical legacy here, in those decades that were to come, what does it look like? What did desegregation 75 years ago lead to in the decades after? Yeah, well, it led to something marvelous, you know. So many black ball players had been not acknowledged and overlooked and there tremendous accomplishments in the Negro leagues were downplayed. Okay, fine. We're going to do it in Major League Baseball. So by 1975, baseball reached a peak in terms of African American participation, 18.5% of the league was black. Fast forward to opening day 2021, only 7.6% of the league is black. There was a survey in 2020 conducted by statista. They asked people if they consider themselves a baseball fans. Only 16% of black folks in that survey said they were baseball fans that compared with 60% of white respondents and 20% of Latinos and Hispanics. So we went.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Biden Calls Satchel Paige 'The Great Negro' in Latest Gaffe and Liberal Media Defends Him
"Think with the media would do if Donald Trump called a black man a Negro. Violating federal law incidentally, I mean, Obama signed a law in May of 2016 banning the word. We don't use the word Negro anymore, but obviously Joe Biden does. And what the media did to provide him cover is so comical. That it bears pointing out if you probably have heard it by now. There's a lot to get to today. It's Friday. We had a busy week. We're going to head into a busy weekend. This is a big breaking news day. You're not going to want to miss a second of today's Mike Gallagher's show 'cause we have a lot of great stuff planned for you. The Kyle rittenhouse trial is going to wind down early next week as it goes to the jury. There's only one reason that this jury would convict him. And we all know what that reason would be. We'll get to that in just a moment, but first in context, here's the 46th president of the United States on Veterans Day. You know, I've adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time picture in the Negro leagues went on to become a great pitcher in the pros and Major League Baseball after Jackie Robinson. His name was satchel page. Now, we could probably assume he meant to say the great Negro league pitcher, maybe when he said that Barack Obama was clean, he didn't mean to say, like he was clean like he bathed, maybe he meant to say, has a clean record. When he said that you can go into any 7 11 and hear everybody talking with an Indian accent, maybe he didn't really mean Indian accent. I mean, you could give him a lot of, you know, cover, right? Because that's what the left does. When he said, you know, those Republicans want to put y'all back in chains. Maybe he didn't mean like literal chains, maybe even those little paper chains that our kids did in kindergarten. Because honest to goodness, the media sprung into action yesterday to defend
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"He'll always regret his failure to include players from the negro leagues among the ghost players. Which you know looking back now makes me feel like that's enough to relegate this film to the aspen of history and it's not something that we should continue to celebrate say remake field of dreams. Call it feel fuck. Y'all and have cool papa. Bell and josh gibson oscar charleston and judy
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"negro leagues" 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.
Chicago's Afternoon News
Baseball Reference Adds Negro League Data in Record Books
"Is a big day today for baseball statisticians and to help us explain all that is Larry Lester. He is the chair of the Negro Leagues Committee for the Society. American baseball research. And Larry This is personally got to be a pretty big day for you. Oh, yes, It's a confirmation for all the 50, plus years of work up mining data from newspapers and compelling it and president into a database and producing results has never been seen before. And so this is the day that the records from the Negro Leagues are being incorporated into Major league baseball records, right so The numbers for the most part are merged. Uh, that is correct. The Negro League players now have major league status, with the emphasis on major And has status available. So I'm happy that this is Sally come to fruition and hopefully, uh, some on unheralded players. We'll get some more
Good Seats Still Available
"negro leagues" Discussed on Good Seats Still Available
"So we now have a A huge museum dedicated to preserving part of history on which is just amazing to see that. Get built and many of the players living in birmingham. Just go there and participate in events and we have events that are reunion there over the years. We've we've had players have had baseball made going to the reunion. has disconnected them with other players and other possible events. So a lot of the guys who have come to the reunions of now they go into schools and talk about their their former playing days and stuff like that so baseball is really kind of come back into their life a lot. More in that regard after high school went down to college in new orleans. I went to tulane university. That was that was fun. Green let me guess. History major business. So that's interesting. I didn't see that coming. Yeah business so in the meantime in in order to support all this research stuff i started flipping memorabilia on the side. I started going to these baseball card shows auction houses and i would buy stuff and i started flipping it at these memorabilia on the spot. I'd buy something at one booth. Sally to another for double the price or buy it there and then go home and sell it on ebay So that that business kind of took off. And i did. That threw my later years in high school In college and that a. That's now my fulltime business. So after i graduated college i i got a job at. Wm william morris endeavor at a talent agency in beverly hills. So i said you know what screw it. Let's let's give this ago. So i was an assistant at an agency for a year. We i was. I worked in the speaking engagements department booking speaking engagements for wide variety of celebrities chefs authors political figures. And then after after about a year there. I just decided it wasn't for me. And i decided to go back to my memorabilia stuff and been doing that full-time now. Since twenty seventeen what what do you think you might have left in this negro leagues journey if anything besides the reunions are are there any Obviously we see the new negro league baseball museum in kansas. I mean there's so much stuff that and i see more and more Tributes we had Jerry cohen from ebbets field flannels. Who's a big longtime Devaux tae towards a painstaking research. And re Reproductions of what You know lots of different sports but But but certainly negro leagues Jerseys uniform and caps and stuff might have been. Do you ever sort of think that there are some Equitable business opportunities to maybe further. Not only the history and the knowledge but fill the coffers. Not only of these museums perhaps of the The players still around. and or their You know and their progeny in the years to come to sort of keep the here the history and the spirit and frankly further investigation to these leagues in these players. Live of first of all. I think ebbets field does a great job of making reproduction jerseys and hats that you know look just like they did back in the day as for business opportunities i i really don't know i kinda i've kind of always separated by business life from Trying to.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"I'm sixty-one. He played ball in the seventies and eighties anybody who's a big baseball fan knows who Eddie Bauer is just think one of the greatest Switch Hitters of all time Jennifer and I were at a game where in the first inning eat at home run write left-handed and then he switched sides and three Innings later hit a home run from the other side of the plate. That's how good he had a bunch of times. Okay. So we're in the bus going from the barbecue to the gig to do a sound-check and Jack Allen's in the back and kick off on who passed away just recently played notably for the Phillies in the White Sox and the Dodgers, but he came up in the sixties. He was the first black player. To play professional ball against white people in the state of Arkansas, right? The Phillies fan club was in Little Rock Little Rock. So he said he got there and he was twenty something and they were three thousand coins at him and Bottles right at his head. He was out in the you know, right right. So by the end that's the beginning of the Season by the end of the season. They gave the car they won the pennant. He was the most valuable player of the whole league bouquets a loving couple radio right off. I needed a city. Yep. He was he was scouted by a Negro League player named Judy Johnson who famously played almost teams. I was talking about the thirties Johnson became a scout and his name was Judy. So this is an ancient history Charles ran the bus dick Howells in the back with Jennifer and Eddie where he's making fun of them cuz that's how he is River sits in the back with Dick Allen and Eddie Martinez back of the bus. The managers got his eyes off right like it right me and Jacqueline tells us that story and then Eddie Murray goes. Okay when I was in the minor since 1978, we're playing in North Carolina, and she couldn't go in the restaurants. He goes 78 he goes we sat on the bus and the other guys were in and brought us back food in a bag and I said Eddie. This is nineteen seventy. You went up to the bigs and 79. It might have been 77 you go make sure you this is done and I'm like you wouldn't let you any so to be in a museum with these players who knew I had negro Leaguers and Jake Allen told me that he met he knew 45 negro Leaguers, but of course any any married gone was a team was a teenage high school. Teammate, Jeff Smith. They're both from Los Angeles and Ozzy. Was there a.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"If you didn't know how old you were how old would you be because he didn't know how old he was. Okay, you know was records, you know, he wasn't born in a hospital in this, you know, it was written a Bible, right? So he got to play in the major leagues. So he tried out. Yeah and Boudreaux said he started to run and then he used I hate running so he walked back over and he said it was just nervous as he ever was and he was never nervous. He does Big Mouth down he talks right, right. He talks smack. He'd yell at you on the field. I'm going to put you on your ass, right? That's how he played he was that colorful fans loved him. Yeah. I mean, he was the big draw and black baseball. He quit every team. They they tried to borrow him. That didn't work. He he started his own team. You know what I mean? Like, he just didn't matter. He showed the game time. White cops would stop him cuz he'd be driving his Buick a thousand miles an hour cuz his late and why I have to stop him a $25 fine and those days they would find you right at your car like Montana. Where do you go? Here's fifty. I'm coming back this way tomorrow. Oh, that's where that joke came from good for your Satchel Paige. So that's awesome Boudreaux got into hit against him. Wait, so so he told the guy that he was young. He comes back to the mound and Boudreaux goes. All right, I'll take a few swings against you cuz I'm he led the league in hitting that here. So it was a legitimate person to take a swing against so he gets into the box. He gets into the batter's box off and page back and throws a bunch of strikes and he gets comfortable fouls and he's after ten minutes. He's like, all right. All right, they gave him a major league contract. Welcome to the team. Yeah, he pitched he sold the stadium on Cleveland stadium in those days off thousand people. So his first starts in the big leagues places with people, right? And he had a good record. He won like seven or eight games relieved in the world series is the first black pitcher to play Anime World Series you relieved in 1948 World Series. There's a plaque tune in Cleveland at the Outfield still and then at the end of the year mind you this man was almost fifty years old. They talked about may be of the year. The sports writers were.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"On the front line because of the Prejudice off the army, so they were often the supply Corps famously the red ball Express which delivered food to the Troops all over Europe was a blocking it. They were allowed to have their own segregated Air corps as you were called in to schedule. Airmen who had the unit but they're all blocked no wives and then they were always the ones who had to load the animal on the ships. So there was a famous explosion in the Bay Area during the war that killed loads of people almost dangerous fucking job in the world bringing him. Oh and putting it on a pitching boat full of ammo right? So that was the they made black people do during the war right some of them page as far too old to be in the Army at that point. He was already old and the Negro League game was on the Sunday in Washington DC a New York were drawing thirty-five forty thousand people in the white teams were drawing two thousand twenty five thousand people. So they were out the white owners were happy to take their money. They rent them the stadium let them have their black game with their black people and then wouldn't let the guys use the clubhouse. They had to go dress down the summer anyway, Oh Jesus Sage part of the reason why there was segregated stopped being was they realized the potential of black dollars, right, you know a certain point financially it was stupid to keep wiping me out but prejudiced as you know, when's the day almost always so Satchel Paige during the war?.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"Yep had a very famous pitcher named Christy Mathewson, and he was very different than the ball players wage because they all chewed tobacco and and more slots on the road and Christy was a Christian and all he would play Checkers in the clubhouse in Bridge. Yes, and he went to Bucknell. So he had a choice of a college education. He was also tall and great-looking in Anglo. Okay, so he was six foot three in those days. I mean, you know, and they called him the Christian gentlemen, he's most famous pitch perfect perfect control. It was a really superb picture was called this the Fate away which now we will call screwball you hold it like that and when you let go of it with your right hand you spinning it, so it's breaking in on a right-handed batter. So it's a trade-off. Pets right purportedly right McGraw who was fraternize with Rube Foster brought Rube Foster over from the Negro Leagues to show Christy how to perfect it because rebirth was a super picture as was his right, right. And so they were stealing styled. They were McGraw style was very much an eerily style Bund Bund Bund steal steal steal run run run a million signatures a million a big fake-out cheeks trying to gain the game the refs that they were, you know push-ups as far as they could go, right? So that's the weekends and then Charleston was a terrific Fielder. He played a very shallow center field right behind second. So balls hit over his head he would chase down like he'd run under them like break the Willie Mays football thing kind of okay, you've purposely played right behind the in detail, which allows you to make plays in the infield on balls that are hit just over the second base, right but also very few planes. Forget it. Closed. Secondly, he was physically very strong. He supposedly could take a baseball and ripped the cover off it with his hands and I don't know if you've ever held a baseball but it's pretty tightly bound. Right? Yeah pictures loved it when he played first because he threw the ball around after every out right when she still did you see them always in baseball the the ball goes around the infield home and comes back to the like in Little League. They get put in the big leagues. They still do it. They not the catcher throws the ball and then they all whip it around and then the kids back in the old days when you can spit on the ball and chain aggression tobacco, and they all right everybody lives. And so when they Charles don't play first he Like listen to seems so then when you lose in the seems you got a sphere a baseball. This fear can't point of pitching is to deflect hitting a whole point of hitting is too defensively perfect to play and get right. So soon as the Spheres has a seam lifted on it. It just no longer applies in a correct. It attains all sorts of weirdness. So that's why guys cheat sheet and pull teams up and spit and put tax on it and all this to KY Jelly. Yep. So the Negro Leagues never outlawed any of that shit. So the pictures were doctoring the ball the whole bunch. So I went to the big leagues were like what we get a new ball every batter and the guys.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"Yeah, so he croaked and happy Chandler took over as commissioner and have a channel was a southern now, but he said when the time came to decide about desegregating and letting Jack him if I don't let a guy play baseball because of the color of his skin when I go to heaven and meet my maker that might not be a good enough answer right? So I'm going to let it I'm going to sign off on it and he did and he let Jackie in and a bunch of teams threatened to pull out of birth. And he had to hard-ass a bunch of owners the commissioner actually wrote a letter and said I don't care if this ruins the league for ten years one man has as much right to play as another and I'll close you fucking team down want to leave the league leave the league but he really hard to do that to get these white owners to even entertain having one superstar. That was black on the field. Right? So samurais. He said to me pass you to the 1997 and he wrote for the Baltimore Afro-American which along with Pittsburgh Courier and lots of other black papers around the United States was the organ of how often you know, black Communications in the days before Mass telling what not, right? So they have their own system of papers and I went to his office at the African American and I asked him one question. Tell me about the Negro Leagues and he spoke for about an hour and half and plug and play much like yourself mister Greg proops off. I think the end of it I said to him. Can I ask you a couple of questions off the you know, we've put away the microphone. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, certainly any kind of Baltimore accent, you know, but cuz he was so old he was ninety something then thought he was he said he was a sold em, he was concessionaire when Walter Johnson was a picture right Walter Johnson pitch from 1907 to 1925. So okay, let me get older you are she said in the in the summer we sold lemonade and in the winter in the Autumn consomme yet that southern accent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it gets a little who is the best player you ever saw any said Oscar Charleston and I said, what about Willie Mays he's dead. William is Maya I put it right to him and he said he was better than money bags and then I asked him to more questions. I said Leo durocher who was Jackie's first manager? Okay. I said was Leo durocher. Just anywhere now, he just wanted to win and I said and I want to ask you this and all the time year-round professional baseball. Did you ever hear any white players say that they wished they could add some black us to their office today that have a better team that could win the pennant any went know.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"During the Depression were a lot of criminals because they weren't allowed to be CEOs or Bankers cuz they're black but they were allowed to begin kingpins. And so the king Panthers teams and stock them built ballparks pay the players and then one guy in Pittsburgh had his own bar that he ran the whole operation out of it was called the green dead. The Crawford Grill. Okay, and that's a good team was called the crawfords or the cross if you're down and his name was Gus Greenlee and he was a well-funded gangster and the Gang that they did was numbers running and numbers running is an Arcane thing now, but in those days there's a big deal you'd get a nickel or a penny. I'm not kidding pennies write a series of numbers that would be rid of like in stock market. And therefore the loop was brought back to the Crawford Grill and counted upstairs. Okay bags of coins bags of grapes pre-registered Freddy's off. Yeah, you know hard when she was a kid the famous singer and actress counting down toward and later of course became a singer downstairs and then went to Hollywood and how did you Gana Cruise a superstar? Yeah. So that's what we're talking about is not that long ago, like for instance just to not to answer your question about Kansas City. That's that that's kind of why it's there the monarchs where it came from the very beginning and the phone number. Organize Negro League too, and they also had Satchel Paige on the who's the most famous nuclear D player. He pitched for them in the forties and they were in the guys that Negro League World Series, which was called the East West game fairly short National American their legs were the eastern league, Washington's. Okay, and how many people watched unsteady Celeste? Okay. Okay. And how many teams did they do they do and they switched so it fluctuated 1008 time like the big leagues but there's independent teams are everywhere. So Charley Pride the country star who just passed away. Yeah played for the Memphis play to the Memphis Red Sox a red caps. His brother. Mac Pride was a star pitcher in the Negro Leagues Charlie played in The Negro Leagues basically wage then tried to play in the big leagues was thrown off the Mets class and 62 and that's when he decided to make a go of it as a country singer and moved to Montana. Hey grains a minor, you know one of my stocks and then you on my Earth It's.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"21st of a band is what you really mean when he played he kicked other players. He held their belts. He threw dirt in their faces. He hit home buyers. Like that's kind of player. He was and he was five foot six right right about a hundred and twenty five pounds. Okay. And so when he became a manager, he was Scrappy. Yeah. Let's say the least slash you did when he retired and he managed for thirty-two years was filed a grievance with the league about the Empire's that was his last official. So to get to the two good parts of this personality right one. He trying to get Frank Grant to Camp, right? So he brought him to the Giants Camp said he was an American Indian. There was no Gentlemen's Agreement about American Indians. Okay is only a gentlemen's agreement about the Negro as it were off. How they called it a gentleman's agreement. Wow is known to be that's what everything that white guys recently. My sister said right the reason why white men are so mad now why Jim Georgia and not Gates and all. Is that it isn't that way anymore? There's income tax. There's the common good. You don't literally just get to commit sexual assault and shoot people and steal. Everyone's property like you did as a white man 4053 hundred years of American History, right? So the fact that that changed is what's got them all in a tizzy so cuz they were on Deck to use a baseball analogy. They thought they were ready to just start grabbing it, you know, just bringing it to themselves and lining up the groceries. They want us to write the Indians just have a lot to say in what happened to them. They got bowled over. Yeah pretended he was an Indian and they called him not kidding Chief takahama. They brought him out to the game, right? He was working out with the players. Yep, and everything was going okay. And then black people who knew he was a black player cuz he was a famous black player. He was like I say, maybe the most famous of his decade a bunch of black people showed up in the stands and they always met made them in in segregated white Parks down the line. Yeah. We're in the Outfield and often as you'll find if you ever go to the Negro League Museum behind a chicken wire fence, right? So the black people are literally fed from white people. So when you go to the Negro League Museum and you walk in the first area, there's a diamond to the Field of Dreams and it's got famous statues of famous my players, but in front of it the wire home and the president of the league of negro league museum BoB Kendrick is a good friend of mine always starts the tour there and says the.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"Had star players at this era what we're talking about the the latter half of the nineteenth century and wage because of right after the Civil War because of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments black men attained in a measure of autonomy and so much they were allowed to own things and vote, right? So of course not all had to come crashing down and eighteen Seventy-Six when they tried to do what they tried to do the other day at the Capitol, right? Right, right the election away from Hays who was going to keep grants policy wage and they I mean children and they gave it to Hays right clearly racist. So then they were able to start Jim Crow. But this is where my point is going. There were black professional players playing in white professional leagues in the 18000s. No one talks about it. It's not something that people talk about a lot but it really did happen and right after this, this is 18 6526. This is off the 1880s is when to see professional baseball doesn't really get off the ground until oh until the eighties. Well, they were playing it in the eighteen forties and fifties, but the League's began in the eighteen seventy. So then there became minor leagues to help Supply the major leagues, right? Right, the the might the national league started in 1876. Okay, American League in 1900, but there was a bunch of other leagues in the nineteenth Century so long In those professional leagues including one which was called the union Association a black man played and his name was fantastically Moses Fleetwood Walker. Yes his brother who also thought it was well day Wilberforce Walker and they called Moses Fleet. That was his nickname cuz his name is Fleetwood. His middle name is Fleetwood. And of course Fleet is always a great Sports nickname. Yes, it'll eventually they began to play other professional teams and that there was a supreme racist on his team named Tony Mullane who was so good-looking that he was nicknamed by the sports writers the Adonis of the box, right the pitchers pitch. They still call the pitching mound to box even though it hasn't been a box for a hundred and twenty five years. Totally was the old days was like Cricket a drop off box. Okay, then then they started to make it a Maryland. And so now the game that we watch there's a mound but in the eighteen hundreds, it was a strip appear that they ran down. Oh, okay, like click underhand underhand. Yeah, so you not to get into the rules but they showed up with Fleet Walker and the team of his life. This picture wouldn't take signals from employee Walker was a catcher so, you know and the signals were always the same fastball curveball whatever else she got, right?.
The Dork Forest
"negro leagues" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"People in this country to keep it going for a long time, right and just live Humanity of I want to play baseball. I want to play baseball and I don't care that you're a black people can't play baseball or whoever kept, you know, it's that whole thing of I'm going to it's going to be it's going to be horrible. People are going to be horrible to me. I'm still going to get to play baseball. I'm going to be good at it. But I'm going to be as famous as I'm going to be whatever that is, but I'm going to get to do this. That's that's what I love about sort of humanity and and and every group that's been marginalized by a white people forever. Right is that they're just like I'm still doing the thing. I'm still going to write music. I'm still going to write books. I'm still gonna I'm still going to you know be a doctor or a dentist or whatever the damn thing. I want to be and it's going to be harder and and and people are going to be it's always so interesting to me when when our fellow Whitey Magoo's Mad, right you're just like and what they're mad at is that my mediocrity could make me even angrier at how much better you are at Okeechobee. Then a thing that I want to do. Well because you're willing to work harder and you're willing to suffer more for it and and and then but because if you think about how good any bulb is at anything and who's a person of color and how much harder they had to work at it I could be mad because I'm like, well, I want to play tennis and you know, and but I'm not well it turns out to do sit-ups and sixteen hours a day. I'm here six years old, right and it turns out so luckily. That's not how my life is so bad effects. My racism is much more subtle and say I like having fun on the lowdown it's again, you know, I have a friend who moved to Atlanta and during this month..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"negro leagues" 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..
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"negro leagues" 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..
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Remembering Atlanta Braves legend and longtime MLB home run king Hank Aaron
"It was a sad day in baseball last week. When hank aaron passed away at age eighty six. One of the all time greats sluggers in baseball history. He wasn't amazing player. An amazing person. And when you think about hank. Aaron and his impact on a game it was tremendous. Think about this hank. Aaron played in the negro leagues hank. Aaron came up to the big leagues and was a star from day one. And when you look at his body of work. It is an incredible incredible degree of consistency. When you think that hank aaron batted three oh five. Seven hundred and fifty five home runs almost averaged hundred. Rbi is twenty three seasons and think about this. If you took away as seven hundred and fifty five home runs from his hit total he still would have three thousand hits. Which by itself get you into the hall of fame so not only does he have three thousand hits. He has a five hundred home. More than five hundred home runs. Those two are markers for me that automatically get my vote and then when you think about what he had to go through to become the homerun champ and the hey and the threats and the racism that was pointed towards him. Think about that People saying that they were going to shoot him. Kill his kids and this guy never never came undone never lashed out at people never got angry. Just kept playing ball kept his head down. He is definitely someone you can admire. And then he did weeks that milestone passing babe ruth and what a monumental moment that was when hank aaron became the all time home run king and i know people some people say he's still my home run king and is not barry bonds and i don't really wanna get into the whole debate about this. This is about hank. Aaron and what he did. I respect what hank aaron put up his numbers he put up but in the record books he's number two and that's where he is and that's what i respect and there's nothing wrong with being number two when when you put up the body of work that hank aaron has done he will be missed. What an impact. He's had and the grace and the dignity everything he play with and he was a world series champion and he was a steady as a as a as a get. Never hit fifty home runs. How can a guy play twenty years. Hit all those home runs and never had those big years over fifty. It's it's an amazing amazing accomplishment. And hank aaron will definitely be missed
77WABC Radio
"negro leagues" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Aaron hit two Go past Babe Ruth with number 715. He went out to hit 40 more home runs before his career was over, and that it's 7 55. And then you heard from the great Larry King, who passed away this weekend at the age of 87, a very funny back and forth, which Seinfeld We're thinking about doing a day for both of those gentlemen later on in the week, But we start with that. The passing of two legends baseball great Hank Aaron and I guess interview slash news Great. Worry King with that, said Bernard McGurk. Good morning, said Rosenberg. It's not beautiful morning for either of those gentlemen, though they did. They did live. Great lives. I have to tell you about Hank. You know, I know he had a rough time earlier, Not only on almost about his whole career. Well, let me just say this. I saw him. Uh, I believe it was just before the pandemic I saw interviewed. By a rod in the ESPN Boof and he seemed like a very happy man. He was a very happy guy. He was a very nice guy. But don't confuse the issue. When he hit that home run to go past Babe Ruth and 1974. You would think that was a celebratory moment for Hank Aaron. He received more death threats. And I know you say everybody gets that threats. They will let you know. I know it was. It was awful. So so, yes, he had a nice life in the end, and he was a very It was a gracious man of Very nice man, but it was not easy he was not able to enjoy. And I said this morning to Frank. That's part of my frustration with the modern day athletes. When LeBron James wins championships, he's beloved. He's revered black people, white people, There's a million's and millions of little white kids walk around wearing LeBron James jerseys. Whether it's Cleveland, Miami or the Lakers. Hank Aaron never really enjoyed that type of thing. So to me, it's kind of a bitter sweet deal for Hank, and he came into the league very shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the barriers, so he actually started Hank out. Glad you mentioned that in the Negro leagues. Yes, he did so short stay. There was one team called the Wolves at the Cleveland clowns or something like that, that he started. Yes, he was a Cleveland guy. In fact, why Firestone is gonna tell us a story later on about how we used to go to Cleveland Brown games. Sit there on the stands with really like a mask on so people didn't recognize him. He never asked for a free ticket. He never asked to sit in the box or VIPs treatment. He went like a member of the dog pound because that's how he was and went to Cleveland games if you watch the Chiefs and Bill's last night in Kansas City, They would Arrowhead Stadium and in Kansas City. I should say they have a museum for the Negro Leagues. The Kansas City Monarchs was a very popular baseball team in those leagues, and that is where Henry started very short time. And then, of course, Had that brilliant career with the Braves and the Brewers. Let me correctly, it was it was the Indianapolis Clown. Yeah, but then the Braves right and the minor league system and he just what we talked about last week with the former Yankees player. Roy White, Ivory White, I'm not with the King Day he went through the same crap saint in the south. And even worse because again, he was breaking records set by legendary God like white men like Babe Ruth, and nobody wanted that. Nobody wanted that. So he had them with 7 55. Of course, he's not the home run King. Statistically that belongs to Barry Bonds. He ended with 762 7 more than Hank Aaron. But the old time pants, a traditional baseball fans. They consider Hank Aaron, the home run king to this day, because Barry Bonds you steroids that that's a big argument. Of course, we all know that Barry Bonds went from looking like Oracle to the rock. Overnight and so Yeah, I know. I know you're going to say, Look it technically, stories doesn't help you. I hand eye coordination hit the ball. I did say that, but it doesn't make you more powerful. It does I like I said. This morning, you go from warning track power to home run power, evidenced by Brady Anderson, a former Baltimore Oriole player that never hit home runs and hit 50 in one season. When he came back into camp looking three times bigger than he was the year before. So it does. And that's why Barry Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame. Correct. So I would say I would. I would agree with the traditionalists that really Hank Aaron holds the title. You were thinking our guy I actually saw Hank Aaron hit a home run in Shea Stadium. Is that the early seventies? I swear to God Never never forget it. Never forget it. Wow. In the early seventies, I was there. And I saw him hit a home run. I was staying. I was actually standing when he hit it. And it was before he broke the record, but nevertheless, he was on track to beat the record s so it's something that stuck in my head all these years. That is huge. He was a member, and we'll move off this here of the first trio ever. Hit 40 home runs on the same team. I think Colorado's done it since maybe others there were three members of the same Atlanta brave team to hit 40 plus home runs in the same season. They were the first to do it. It was Darrell Evans. It was Hank Aaron, and it was the former manager of the New York Mets. Davey Johnson. Well, there you have it. Davey Johnson also made the very last out in the 1969 World Series when he flew out to center field when the Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles to win it..
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"negro leagues" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Los Angeles weeks after it was revealed he was battling covert 19. He was 87. His career spanned six decades in television, radio and digital media. He hosted Larry King Live on CNN from 1985 through 2010, the Centers for Disease Control reports the largest single day increase of administered Corona virus vaccines to date, the agency says At least 1.6 million shots were given out on Friday, bringing the total to more than 19 million doses. That's nearly half of what's been distributed around the U. S. This week's number of shots given is also 22% higher compared to last week. I'm at Madison, New York State is running out of vaccine doses. Scott Pringle has the story. Governor Cuomo says 97% of the state's vaccine supply has been used. The weak 1 to 5 allocation will be exhausted. By the end of the day, more than a quarter million doses are arriving. But Cuomo says it's not enough to keep pace. Meanwhile, the positivity rate continues to drop. Now Sitting at 5.6% good news is we're seeing the hospitalizations decrease over these past couple of days. Significant decrease, the Cuomo warns. That could change with the UK Varian spreading Now 25 known cases in New York with new cases popping up in Westchester in Brooklyn. The Texas Supreme Court paves the way for several lawsuits against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who claimed the sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. Bill Ogden represents families of the victims. It's a tough case, when when we pull back and realize what actually happened there and what they've had to live with. What they still have to live with the court throughout Jones argument, he is protected by the constitutional right of free speech. I'm Cameron Fairchild. Civilians have been killed in the latest Israeli air strike on Syria. Syria's state media says at least four civilians were killed, including two Children and an Israeli airstrike in central Syria. Officials said Most of the missiles fired by Israeli war planes were shot down, but some did get through. It's the latest in a series of strike in which Israel reportedly is targeting Iranian based operations in Syria. Israel has yet to comment. I'm Bill's in for former Trump campaign manager and adviser Kellyanne Conway is under investigation over domestic issues with her daughter, Claudia. The 16 Year old has caused a stir online in recent months, whether criticism of her mom's old boss Recently posted a tic tac video of Kellyanne Conway, speaking with police conversation was about Claudia. Her mom told officers. The team was going through a tough time. TMZ reports. Police were there for a welfare check after someone saw another tic tac video of Kelly and screaming at her daughter, Michael Kastner, The master tenet of the so called Ghost Ship Warehouse in California pleads guilty 2 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Derek Amina is expected to be sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36. People in 2016. Amina was already free on bail after three years in jail with good behavior. It's unlikely he'll be spending any more time behind bars. I'm Lisa Taylor 56 years after the Negro leagues, Kansas City team disbanded. The Kansas City Monarchs will again play baseball in 2021. Tom Roberts has the story. The Kansas City T bones of the Independent American Association, his partnering with the Negro Leagues Museum to rename the team the Monarchs. Museum officials say the partnership celebrates the city's rich baseball heritage and helps to educate the public about the Negro Leagues. History. Monarchs were the oldest Negro League team founded in 1920 Times, Cameron Fairchild. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom As panic induced remote work stretches into an 11th month. Manhattan's Collateral Damage is growing. New York's financial firms are taking note and saying they will help with distribution. We're hearing Goldman Sachs Group, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and K K R were among a few dozen companies that got on a call this week with the state's vaccinations are Larry Schwartz. Some of the firm's said they can provide distribution and logistics and could help persuade the Biden administration.
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"negro leagues" Discussed on AM 1350 WEZS
"Latest when you need it on demand from Fox News and Amazon, Alexa Washington State man accused of a Corona virus vaccine scam is under arrest. Federal prosecutors say Johnny Stein trying to pass himself off as a bio tech expert Claiming to be the founder and president of North Coast biologics as early as March. Stein is accused of posting offers on social media to inject customers with a covert vaccine for a charge of 400 to $1000. This despite the fact he received a cease and desist decree from the state attorney general U. S Attorney Brian Moran says Stein was injecting people with an unknown substance, claiming it was a vaccine. Hamburg. ADI Fox News investigators are trying to determine what caused the National Guard helicopter to crash Wednesday night in upstate New York, killing the three guard members on board. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office quickly moved to secure the crash site for Army investigators. We've applied several resource is to this effort. Our patrol deputies or supervisors, Air Command staff all hands on deck for this, chief Deputy, Michael Fowler says area residents paid tribute to the fallen troops as their remains were escorted to the medical examiner's office. They came out of their homes. They stood on the side of the road. With flags. Saluting Steve Rapoport. Fox News, I says, claiming responsibility for the twin Baghdad bombings that killed at least 32 people on Thursday on the baseball team from the past that produced Legends of the game is making a comeback. The Kansas City T Bones and independent baseball team. The American Association is bringing back a historical moniker, changing their name to the Kansas City Monarchs to pay tribute to the iconic Negro Leagues Ball Club. Negro Leagues Baseball Museum signed a licensing agreement with the owners of the minor league team to honor the original Monarchs, who won the first Negro League World Series. Back in 1924. Matt Napolitano, Fox News And I'm Carmen Roberts. And this is Fox News. The mission of Paralyzed Veterans of.
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Families of Negro Leaguers rejoice in MLB's decision to recognize league
"On wednesday. Mlb announced that it was quote unquote elevating negro leaguers. Two major league status within its official historical record which helps explain why google searches for the name. Josh gibson suddenly started spiking. Baseball says it's figuring out how to include negro leagues statistics into its canon of sacred numbers. And there is no resume quite as legendary or as mythical as that of the late josh gibson. The catcher that satchel page once unambiguously deemed the greatest hitter. Who ever lived. So i called up shawn gibson. Josh's great grandson and the executive director of the josh gibson foundation to understand what mlb's decision to elevate his great grandfather means to him. Well first of all. I don't like the word elevating. I think it should be more of a merger because niggly baseball player or major league players as well. So that's first and foremost this. And i want to bid tuesday night as josh gibson's greg grants and i woke up as josh jacobs. His grandson asher to cerebral calls questions about this happened. Literally when people say happen literally overnight it literally happened overnight and to wake up and see that in lobby made the announcement and josh gibson. Now what we consider not just one greatest league baseball players he. He'll be considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and so for us in our family. It's a great honor. Ona understand josh. What you heard growing up from family from friends about how your great grandfather considered his own career compared to those who had the opportunity who were afforded that opportunity to play in the majors for jars. You know and the other great negro baseball players you know. They knew they were great players. They didn't even know by to tell him that it was just a decision At that time it was in that era. that kennesaw mountain land is denied the opportunity to play in the majors but did not stop him. They barnstorm against a lot of white baseball players. And you know as well as we know. I know is that a lotta times. They beat the white ball players in. So that's something right there. And so when i totally stories just in our family. There's we call josh gibson big josh. 'cause josh gibson junior of course is the sense that you can't say jockey get confused. I wanted to ask you about one of big joshes more famous nicknames. He was called very famously. The black babe. When you hear that sean about your great grandfather how does that make you feel you know. Let's say this bridge. Stevens bakers great grandson. He's one of my good friends. We go back and forth back and forth on this all the time. I didn't know that okay. Tell me about your relationship with him. And what you guys talk about on this regard. That's great so burn. Stevens is bait roof. Great grandson and so we always talked about. You know josh gibson's compared to my grandfather. And i'm like well that's what you but if you ask me about. Bay roof is a white josh gibson. So we go back and forth. Is we always say our people always say Yankee stadium was called the house. Ruth bill in ice t's brent are okay but who hit the furthest home running stadio i give them on that one. Well i mean. I want to even push that. Story further sean. Because i grew up going yankee stadium. He's the only human being to ever hit a fair ball out of the park out of the house. That babe ruth ledley built. I don't want to rub it in his face to. I don't go that far. I just say the furthest rebel. We all know he headed out. The ballpark. we know is over near babe. Ruth kane close no all seriously. I've heard several stories two different stories. I heard it. It's out of the ballpark. Been a heard from some players that hit like the top tier of moammar. So you wrote a piece of the undefeated in august about your grandfather's name being on the mvp trophy. And that may have been unthinkable at one point but now it does feel like there could be momentum towards that. Why is this important to you and your family. Then the peak kinda fell on our lap on. This happened to read an article about terry pendleton barry. Larkin and mike schmidt. Making a case to remove kennesaw Mountains landers name off the mvp award and it gets to okay. Well here at a names that they're considering replacing the name with in his frank robinson branch rickey and go shoot josh gifts literally again on the phone with my board directors. I said listen. We just found herself in a race. Let's see how we can win it so for us. I'm hoping that the vwa taking consideration of this and really think twice when they make a decision to rename this after josh gibson but this mvp war if this may not. The jaw is just about josh gibson. This will carry on the legacy of all the other great players as well. Who were denied the opportunity. So josh gibson is carrying several thousand players on his shoulders but his vp award the page. Family the buck leonard. Cool up a bail family. Turkey stars fan oscar charleston. Family all great players will all celebrate. It'll be named after josh. But every time i speak about this i'll make sure represent all the family members who were denied the opportunity
Bob Sirott
Major League Baseball officially elevates Negro Leagues to 'Major League' status
"Baseball, announcing yesterday that it officially elevates the Negro leagues to major league status. The league is highlighting the contributions of the pioneers have played in the league from 1922 1948. The stats and records of those players will now be included as part of major league history.
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HBO Max and Roku bury the hatchet: Roku users can add the service December 17
"Hbo max is finally coming to roku roku is one of the last major platforms to get the popular streaming service but as of today it's users can download and start watching. Hbo max. It took months of negotiations to make this happen though axios reports roku and. at and t. which owns hbo. Max have been in touch almost daily to finalize the agreement and some analysts. Say they struck the deal at just the right time on christmas day. The highly anticipated film. Wonder woman nineteen eighty-four screaming on. Hbo max the same day. It hits theaters in fact starting in two thousand twenty. One warner brothers is releasing all of its new releases that same way.
Tim Conway Jr.
MLB officially recognizes Negro League as "major league" after 100 years
"MLB classifies the Negro leagues as a major league and will integrate it stats and players into a Moby's official historical records as this year marks the centennial of the Negro League's
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MLB Announces It Will Recognize Negro Leagues As Major League
"Roughly 3400. That is how many Blatt and let black rather and Latin ex baseball players from the game's segregated arrow will now be recognized as major league players. Major League Baseball announced today. It would now recognize the Negro leagues of the segregated era as major leagues. What that means is they're going to incorporate their stats. The MLB records long
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Oxygen-Detecting Devices Give Misleading Readings In People With Dark Skin
"College the common advisor fingertip Nikita Leo devices is with college that measure bound, oxygen which works in with the blood low income or and increasingly first generation students. finding their way Normally, into what people's we do homes is we sit Because down the of students, the covert 19 we pandemic. walk through the common These pulse app. We ox walk devices through can different sometimes like give schools, misleading websites readings, and though, and people even with dark like, skin help them That's according physically to a new study. do it fast stuff NPR's we're science doing correspondent all of that. Richard Harris Over the reports phone and video when Detroit's screen, hospital and started so to overflow with that's covert really patients. hard. Earlier But this while year, colleges some are patients being flexible ended up at for the seniors University around of Michigan tests and in activities, Ann Arbor the Leo and advises his doctor Michael applicants showed to Ng steer started clear treating of this writing influx about the of pandemic. largely black Every patients. teenager He wants to started write about noticing Cove in something odd about the results from the fingertip and device like just called encouraging a pulse them to, like, Oximeter. try to think about other It's things that have happened It's out in of their life this and number called And right an oxygen about those things. saturation Education value, strategist which Michael Horn gives us says an understanding the big dip in of enrollment how much at campuses Oxygen this fall is in could the blood. work to some But that students oxygen advantage. reading was sometimes They're off much when compared more in to the a position more sophisticated of being test able that to samples choose blood the college from a person's because artery. a lot of these colleges So are shooting desperate and for his colleagues them to show started up gathering and pay data for comparing most applicants. these readings The application in light skinned deadline people versus is January dark 1st. skinned people. 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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 reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
"It means stats and records of thirty four hundred black players will count in the major leagues the Negro league started to dissolve a year after Jackie Robinson became MLB's first black player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen forty seven the late Buck o'neil played for the Kansas city monarchs he told the AP in two thousand five about Negro league exhibition games with Major League white players and the extra motivation we stress that single and a double man that double into a triple we stole home now o'neill and other players are considered major leaguers we dad in Europe fighting prejudice aha will walk to and we come back home and we segregated it wouldn't pass the Negro leagues were founded one hundred years ago I'm a Donahue
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MLB officially recognizes Negro League as "major league" after 100 years
"Major league Baseball is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league. It means the stats and records of 3400 black players will now be part of MLB history. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Black History in Two Minutes
Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
"On April Fifteenth Nineteen forty seven when Jackie, Robinson, walked onto the field for the Brooklyn dodgers he broke Major League Baseball's color line forever changing the sport. And Race. Relations in America. Jackie Robinson was an extraordinary athlete lettering in four Varsity sports at UCLA. Doing more to, he was drafted into the army who was court martialled after refusing to move to the back of a segregated military bus Robinson fought his case he was acquitted then honorably discharged. So. He always had a sense of fairness always had a sense of racial justice and social justice. Nineteen forty-five because the major leagues remained segregated Robinson joined the Negro Leagues and played for the Kansas City monarchs. Meanwhile, sports writers from African American newspapers were pressuring the major leagues to integrate. Branch Rickey. General Manager of the Brooklyn. Dodgers decided he'd act and began a search for the perfect prospect. Robinson's college education and his ability to endure the racists attacks that inevitably would ensue convince Rickie. It was Robinson who was the ideal candidate to become the first African American. Major. League player. Ricky sign. Robinson to the Brooklyn dodgers in nineteen forty seven. Despite racist abuse from opposing teams and Taunting by the Crowds Robinson manage to focus on the game. But the cost was high. He suffered indignities because of a commitment not to fight back. Gradually. He build a fan base excelled on the field and then was named rookie of the year. Even. Naysayers couldn't deny his outstanding talent as he led the Brooklyn dodgers to their first and only World Series Championship. When he retired Robinson turned his attention to the civil rights movement. He's a frontline participant mending his prestige, his presence to these causes for civil rights. He supported protests in Alabama, attended the march on Washington and was one of the NWEA CP's biggest fundraisers. Yet Robinson Saul civil rights as more than a political movement. He engages in business and entrepreneurial activities. It speaks to his multifaceted approach new away with Jim Crow create opportunities five Americans. By breaking the color line America's favorite pastime Jackie Robinson Open the door for integration far beyond the baseball field.
Black History in Two Minutes
Hank Aaron: Breaking the Home Run Record
"On April Eighth Nineteen seventy four Atlanta Braves outfielder Henry Louis Aaron better known as Hank, his seven hundred fifteenth home run finally breaking the record of the legendary Babe Ruth like everyone else in the country I've been following errands pursuit of the record since the previous season. He played in the Negro Leagues in the Early Nineteen Fifties, and now here he was just two home runs away new but the excitement was undercut by a sense of alarm as errands quest unleashed a torrent of vicious racism baseball is the quintessential American sport. Now, an African American, a dark skinned black man challenging the power, the supremacy of baseball and of white men. That's why the hate mail death threats bomb threats. This was driving a stake at the heart of American culture. Has All this made you more aware than you're a black baseball player? I've never forgotten. Later, he would confess that he was afraid. He wouldn't live long enough to break the record. Then at the start of the nineteen, seventy, four season. All. Of all. Errands triumph was electrified By the end of his Major League career nine, thousand, nine, hundred, seventy, six, he had hit a total of seven hundred and fifty five home runs. Errands record would stand for more than thirty years. The braves retired his number and he was elected to the hall of fame. To. This Day Hank Aaron is considered one of baseball's greatest players.
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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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Peter King on decision to leave MMQB; NFL draft fallout
"Working on scattered outages as well from last week's windstorm news time seven thirty three here's steve courtney sports all rich and not a very good performance by the tigers in kansas city yesterday they wrap up the fourgame series as a matter of fact that skipper ron gardenhire referred to it as ridiculous anyway the royals get a four two win kansas city wins a series for the first time in eleven tries this season matthew boyd fourrun six hits in seven innings of work tigers in texas to kick off the first of three eight oh five tonight michael fulmer on the hill for the tigers he's wanting to two point eight zero the era nba postseason the warriors now with a stranglehold on their series with the pelicans golden state gets a one eighteen ninety two win yesterday golden state up three one there the rockets ditto they beat the utah jazz one hundred eighty seven in utah houston up there now three games to one chris paul by the way twenty seven points sanli cup playoffs the lightning advance again they beat the bruins three one they will face the capitals or penguins caps up in that series three to western conference had the golden knights of vegas shutting out the sharks three nothing marc andre fleury twenty eight saves four shutout of the postseason vegas advances at a conference final as an expansion team no less face either winnipeg or nashville the jets lead that series three games to two and justifies victory in saturday's kentucky derby was worth one point four three two million to the horse's owners and nearly as much to one texas woman who picked five straight winners in races eight through twelve at churchill downs the woman from austin texas one one point two million dollars whether eighteen dollar pick five bet steve courtney wjr sports traffic and weather first on the fives with dc straight ahead this michigan opera theatre presents the the summer came this story of negro leagues baseball legend josh gibson considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time his historic journey is told of talent heartbreak and overcoming prejudice and discrimination featuring the michigan opera theatre orchestra and chorus may twelfth through the twentieth at the detroit opera house tickets and information at michigan opera dot org a possible by general motors.