Podcasts about Satchel Paige

In this episode of Two Strike Noise, Jeff and Mark kick off with a discussion on the passing of a significant figure in Italy and explore fascinating connections between religious figures and baseball. They delve into the 1942 Negro League World Series featuring Satchel Paige's Kansas City Monarchs against Josh Gibson's Homestead Grays. The conversation highlights the challenges faced by Negro League teams, quirky anecdotes, and the historic importance of the series. The episode concludes with Wax Packs Heroes, where Jeff and Mark have another intense card battle, showcasing baseball cards from the early '90s and discussing lesser-known players as well as legends, alongside their surprising pop culture appearances. 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:44 Baseball and Current Events 01:15 Pope Connections in Baseball 05:41 Historical Baseball Debuts 14:20 Was He a Yankee? 18:46 1942 Negro League World Series 36:25 Wax Pack Heroes: Baseball Card Battle 01:03:31 Conclusion and Farewell Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/TwoStrikeNoise/ Instagram - @twostrikenoise Bluesky - @twostrikenoise.bsky.social Threads - @twostrikenoise Twitter - @twostrikenoise Two Strike Noise on YouTube - www.youtube.com/@twostrikenoise Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/twostrikenoise E-mail - twostrikenoise@gmail.com We pull ALOT of commons in Wax Pack Heroes. If you've got those Tom Foley or Ernest Riles cards just sitting around you can donate those commons to charity and maybe spark a child's interest in baseball and collecting. Find out more here: http://commons4kids.org/ #podernfamily #podnation #baseball #mlb #history #podcast #baseballcards

Episode 296 of “The Sports Experience Podcast” is here & we're continuing our block of episodes on the greatest players in the history of the Negro Leagues.Arguably one of the greatest pitchers of all-time, Satchel Paige was an absolute legend on the mound.After he ran into legal trouble in his youth in Alabama, Paige focused on his love of baseball and learned to pitch in a reform school. Upon his release, the young right-handed Paige became a star in the Negro Leagues. Armed with a devastating fastball, an array of breaking pitches and multiple release points, Paige dominated the competition as a member of the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Kansas City Monarchs.Paige was a six-time All-Star, won a World Series in 1942 and even displayed his talents in the California Winter League against legends like Joe DiMaggio. Paige even found success outside the Negro Leagues in places like Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.In 1947, Paige and Bob Feller went on a barnstorming tour of the country which played integrated exhibition games between some of the top talent in baseball.Though a past injury had limited his fastball, Paige became the first African American pitcher in Major League Baseball in 1948 for the Cleveland Indians. What made that even sweeter was the fact that he pitched in and was part of Cleveland's World Series winning team that season.Paige then made two All-Star teams in 1952 and 1953 as a member of the St. Louis Browns in 1952 and 1953, and even pitched at age 59 for the Kansas City Athletics in 1965!Paige ultimately received the highest honor in the sport in 1971 when he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.Connect with us on Instagram!Chris Quinn: @cquinncomedyDominic DiTolla: @ditolladominicProducer: @ty_englestudioInstagram: @thesportsexperiencepodcastIf you enjoy this podcast, please help support us @:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-sports-experience-pod/support#sportspodcast#comedypodcast #satchelpaige#baseballplayer#baseball

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" ~ Satchel Paige (https://www.billcrawfordphd.com/quote-video-blog/)

Hello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries Backroads. Step into the windup and journey through the incredible life of Satchel Paige, a towering figure in baseball history whose story goes far beyond the mound. From the dusty diamonds of the Negro Leagues to the bright lights of Major League Baseball, Paige's blazing fastball and razor-sharp wit carved a path through segregation, skepticism, and the sands of time. Join us as we dive deep into the legend, legacy, and lasting impact of a man who defied the odds—and Father Time—to become one of the most iconic athletes of the 20th century. Whether you're a baseball buff or just love a good story of grit, humor, and greatness—this one's for you. Check out Ohio Mysteries Backwoods Facebook page!: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558042082494¬if_id=1717202186351620¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif Please check other podcast episodes like this at: https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textYou are about to discover the best way to live life in the golden years!  Dr. Mark Rutland returns to Finish Strong and serves up important “deep seated” truths with his unique brand of humor.  Many people become fearful, ungrateful and intolerant as they face the unique challenges of aging.  However, you can avoid these characteristics by incorporating laughter, generosity and gratitude into every day of your life.  Imagine feeling and acting younger as you learn to dance through life's most challenging situations!Time marches on and soon enough we find ourselves in the “Red Zone” of life.  But if we apply Dr. Rutland's wisdom, we can make it into life's “End Zone” and celebrate with friends and family for all time.  You won't want to miss this edition of Finish Strong!Support the showFearless Faith Websiteffaith.orgTo leave a review - Open Finish Strong on the Apple Podcast app and scroll down until you see "Ratings & Reviews". There will be a link to click so that you can "Write A Review"FacebookYouTubeInstagram

Notes and Links to Dan Gutman's Work        New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Dan Gutman has written more than 190 books for readers from kindergarten through middle school. Dan's My Weird School series includes 100+ titles, and has sold more than 35 million copies globally over the past 20 years. Dan also is the author of the best-selling Genius Files series, the Baseball Card Adventure series, and many more.    Dan's books have been named Junior Library Guild Selections and Bank Street College's Best Children's Books of the Year, and have been awarded numerous state book awards, including: The California Young Reader Medal, the Massachusetts Children's Book Award, and the Iowa Children's Choice Award, among others.     When he's not writing books, Dan loves to ride his bike, play pickleball, throw Frisbees, and explore New York City where he lives with his wife Nina. To find out more, follow Dan on Facebook, BlueSky, and Instagram. Buy Dan's Books   Dan Gutman's Website   Book Review: The Genius Files   At about 0:45, Audrey nails the biographical reading of Dan Gutman's info At about 2:25, Dan responds to Pete asking if “it gets old” after writing 190+ books At about 3:15, Pete talks about the baseball bug hitting the family At about 3:40, Audrey gives background on the family's connection with Satchel Paige, and Chris gives backstory involving Shoeless Joe Jackson At about 5:45, Dan expands on the legend of Shoeless Joe and talks about the popularity of baseball with young people  At about 6:40, Dan and the Riehls discuss the famous Honus Wagner baseball card and some facts about him, the star of one of Dan's books At about 8:50, Dan responds to Audrey's question about his inspirations for the baseball series through giving background on his writing for kids and connecting to baseball At about 11:10, Dan traces his journey in initially getting his work published  At about 13:20, Chris recommends a baseball player for Dan's new book At about 13:50, Dan reflects on why he chose the baseball players he did for his books  At about 15:15, Dan replies to Audrey's question about his own baseball career, and shares a cool Easter egg At about 16:15, The  At about 16:40, Chris recounts two family card collecting stories similar to The Sandlot-the second dealing with a Michael Jordan rookie card At about 19:10, Dan discusses the research needed for his writing, and how he balances fantasy/fiction with nonfiction  At about 21:10, Pete shares his experience reading about larger cultural events and historical events through sports books like those about Jackie Robisnon  At about 22:35, Dan shares his experiences in writing about Jackie Robinson and Joe DiMaggio  At about 23:35, Dan responds to Pete's questions about books and genres that inspired his love of reading, and how reading about baseball was a huge catalyst  At about 25:50, Dan shares wonderful feedback and compliments shared by eager readers of his work and their parents and teachers  At about 27:10, Pete and Dan discuss The Genius Files series and its ethos, and Dan gives background on the series' genesis  At about 30:25, Dan talks about writing for different ages and in different genres, and his mindset in doing so At about 31:55, Dan responds to Pete asking about his “beta readers” and getting reading feedback  At about 33:00, Dan shouts out some favorite writers for young people  At about 34:30, Dan talks about the ways in which visual arts and photography are balanced with his words  At about 36:50, Dan reflects on what his books have in common and ideas of the “muse” as he mentions some exciting upcoming projects  At about 41:00, Dan gives contact and social media info, as well as book ordering information      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow Pete on IG, where he is @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where he is @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the podcast while you're checking out this episode.       Pete is very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. This week, his conversation with Episode 255 guest Chris Knapp is up on the website. 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Professor Donald Spivey talked about the legacy of pitcher Satchel Paige and Negro Leagues baseball. Satchel Paige was the first Negro Leagues player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Professor Spivey also explained the ways that Paige and other Negro Leagues players and owners contributed to the struggle for civil rights, including fighting Jim Crow laws, financially supporting groups like the NAACP, and fostering friendships with white players in Major League Baseball.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1960, Jackie Robinson was four years into retirement from his groundbreaking baseball career, having last played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. At this time, Robinson was hosting a syndicated radio program called Jackie Robinson's Radio Shots, produced by RCA. This interview features Robinson speaking with legendary pitcher Satchel Paige, who was 54 years old and had recently pitched his last major league game for the Kansas City Athletics in 1958.The conversation between Robinson and Paige covers their shared experiences in the Negro Leagues, including their time together on the 1945 Kansas City Monarchs. They discuss the grueling travel schedule and playing conditions of the Negro Leagues, as well as Paige's famous encounters with Josh Gibson. Paige recounts the story of intentionally walking three batters to face Gibson with the bases loaded, showcasing the friendly rivalry between these Negro League greatsThe interview also touches on lighter topics, such as the origin of Paige's nickname and his unconventional remedy for stomach troubles - goat's milk.#JackieRobinson #SatchelPaige #NegroLeagues #BaseballLegends #RadioBroadcasting

This week we discuss the 2024 Phillies season. The final nail in the coffin was delivered by the Mets some time ago, but we partake in a debrief for the season and air our grievances. For our This Week In Baseball, we discuss the two Phillies World Series events in the form victory in 1980 and painful defeat in 1993. Our father had great joy 1980 as a young man and my brother had great pain in 1993 as a boy who loved his Phillies to his core.Our Hall of Famer this week is Satchel Paige. We discuss his numbers, but more importantly we have a discussion about NeL players as a whole and if we have a future discussing those players at all. For our parting shots we talk about the future of the Phillies and how "postseason" numbers can be just a smidge misleading.Enjoy our new crop of weekly commercials with Kate Upton for MLB 2K12, Starting Lineup Talking Baseball, and Kenny Mayne ESPN catch phrases.Please join us as we discuss baseball topics and we continue our mission to make The Hall small. We hope you'll enjoy the ride.TimestampsThis Week In Baseball - 22:13Hall of Fame Discussion - 47:10Parting Shots - 1:01:02

Abe Saperstein is best known as the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters but in his career he crossed paths with everybody from Satchel Paige to George Steinbrenner to Wilt Chamberlain to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Authors Mark and Matthew Jacob join us to talk about their new book, "Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports". Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear. Contact the show at HelloOldSports@gmail.com and find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HelloOldSports

Despite their name, the Harlem Globetrotters weren't originally from New York's Harlem neighborhood, nor did they start out as true world travellers. This all-Black basketball team, founded by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, originated on Chicago's South Side and began touring the Midwest rather humbly in Saperstein's unheated Ford Model T. With his sharp promotional skills and the players' incredible talent, the Globetrotters quickly grew into an international sensation. Author-brothers Mark & Matt Jacob ("Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports") step into the box office this week to discuss their definitive new biography of Saperstein, a diminutive visionary whose outsized innovations made a profound impact on basketball - and beyond. Starting in the 1920s, the Globetrotters battled everything from harsh weather to rampant racism, all while building an iconic reputation for excellence and comedy that would captivate audiences worldwide. But Saperstein's influence stretched far beyond the Globetrotters. He helped keep baseball's Negro Leagues alive, was a force in getting pitching great Satchel Paige his shot at the majors, and befriended Olympic star Jesse Owens when he fell on hard times. When Saperstein was denied an opportunity to own an NBA franchise, he started the rival American Basketball League, where he helped pioneer the three-point shot, now a staple of the modern game. + + +   SPONSOR THANKS: Old School Shirts.com (promo code: GOODSEATS) https://oldschoolshirts.com/goodseats Royal Retros (promo code: SEATS): https://www.503-sports.com?aff=2   READ EARLY AND OFTEN: "Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports" (2024): https://amzn.to/3TNDFaM FIND AND FOLLOW: Website: https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/ X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodSeatsStill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodseatsstillavailable/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@goodseatsstillavailable Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodSeatsStillAvailable/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@goodseatsstillavailable

The original Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem, and they didn't start out as globetrotters. The talented team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago's South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein's model-T. But with Saperstein's savvy and the players' skills, the Globetrotters would become a worldwide sensationAt 5'3”, Saperstein is not who we might imagine would bring the sport of basketball to the entire world, pioneer the three-point shot, or to befriend the likes of Jesse Owens, Satchel Paige, and Wilt Chamberlain to name a few. Born in 1902 in London's Whitechapel slum neighborhood to parents who had immigrated from Poland, Saperstein and his family then immigrated to America in 1906.  He founded the team in the 1920s, steadily building a reputation for talent and comedy until their footprint covered the entire world.Abe Saperstein's impact went well beyond the Harlem Globetrotters. He helped keep baseball's Negro Leagues alive, was a force in getting pitching great Satchel Paige his shot at the majors, and befriended Olympic star Jesse Owens when he fell on hard times. When Saperstein started the American Basketball League, he pioneered the three-point shot, which has dramatically changed the sport. Today's guests, Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob, authors of “Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports” piece together the of his life.

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Join the conversation as Matt and John talk about sports, the Sermon on the Mount, and Satchel Paige.  0:00- intro 2:53- sports 7:30- sermon on the mount 41:45- this day in sports 45:48- one thing

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"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was*?" Satchel Paige (1906-1982)"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it." George Burns (1896-1996)"The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen (1935- )“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis.

Playing by your own rules, a wasteful week, a great boxing quote, an unforgettable Willie Mays and Satchel Paige anecdote, a mea culpa to Donald Sutherland, the somewhat sad story of Morgan Spurlock, the bloodied but unbowed Jim Otto, the sleazy Al Davis, the worst haircut of all time, the insanity of stickum, a modern day true romance, a crazy night in Northern California, bad speed, learning a lesson, some tales from the psychiatric hospital, a touching elevator ride, don't Judge me, and a beautiful one. Stuff mentioned: The Lost Weekend (1945), Charles R. Jackson The Lost Weekend (1944), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (2024 Studio 54), Don't Look Now (1974), Super Size Me (2004), Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant" (1977), Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977), Goodfellas (1990), Elliott Smith "The Last Hour" (2004), Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill (2004), Wings of Desire (1987), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Getty Center Cy Twombly: Making Past Present (August 2-October 30 2022), Dead in a Heartbeat (2002), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987), Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994), Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024), The Cardigans "Beautiful One" (1995), and The Cardigans Life (1995).

The Negro Leagues, MLB and HALL OF FAME: The Controversy Many of America's most talented ballplayers wrote their legends outside the Majors. Jackie Robinson broke that barrier when he debuted with the Dodgers in 1947, but it would take another 24 years -- and a public plea from Ted Williams -- for the Hall to induct its first Negro League star. This article has a rundown of each of the 35 Negro Leagues stars enshrined in Cooperstown. The inductees are listed in chronological order, beginning with Satchel Paige's landmark election to the Class of 1971. https://www.mlb.com/history/negro-leagues/f Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Negro_league_baseball_players_who_played_in_Major_League_Baseball https://youtu.be/01qMbIOA0pk?si=NJfbSrhiMmrpQbKZ   Kundalini Yoga:  Dump your past with this short kriya to get rid of all the regrets, could've, should've, would've : https://youtu.be/HboowUqCidk?feature=shared Wine - South African tribute to GLENELLY. South African Wine Has Never Been Better. In many ways, the current state of South African wine sales in the U.S. can be traced back to apartheid. Next year is the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid, but “it is still one of the first things that we think about,” says Douglas https://daily.sevenfifty.com/south-african-wine-has-never-been-better-have-americans-noticed/ GUIDANCE:   My Minicourse: Fear of Public Speaking: Virtual, PRIVATE Class,  One Lesson takes you from Ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY https://bit.ly/3TXbx5L Valerie@allinourminds.com @valeriehail56 merci  

In this week's episode, we mark a momentous day in Team of Rivals history – Elliott was in the room before Ron! We kick things off with some friendly banter about Ron's ongoing tech struggles, Elliott's surprising punctuality, and the scorching weather in Charlotte. But don't worry, we quickly shift gears to tackle some hot-button topics in the world of baseball. First up, we discuss the controversial use of defensive positioning cards and how they impact the game. Pete and Ron share their frustrations with the over-reliance on analytics and the loss of the storytelling aspect that once made baseball so captivating. We also touch on the recent Rickwood game and the nostalgic broadcast that had fans buzzing. Was it a glimpse into what baseball broadcasts should be? Then, we dive into the state of pitching in Major League Baseball. With insights from a recent article on The Athletic, we explore how pitch labs and advanced analytics are changing the game, for better or worse. Are pitchers becoming too dominant, and is it time for batters to get back to basics? We also can't ignore the elephant-sized head in the room – Barry Bonds making the Rickwood game all about himself. We dissect his comments and share a few laughs at his expense. Plus, we reminisce about some legendary stories involving Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, and Bob Gibson. Finally, we get into some wild trade ideas to shake up the Cubs and Cardinals rosters. Ron suggests a controversial move that would have X/Twitter in flames, while Pete proposes a bold trade involving some fan favorites. And Elliott? Well, he's just hoping for some bullpen help to stop the Cubs' late-game collapses. Reggie Jackson on Willie Mays' legacy & emotions of visiting Rickwood Field MLB offense is nearing all-time lows — hitters have theories: ‘Pitching is out of control' Check out the livestream on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, or X. Follow us on X, Instagram, and GETTR. Like us on Facebook. Check out Fuel Sports Network on Facebook and on X.

Stacy and Curtis are joined by ESPN’s Bill Barnwell to discuss the Seahawks possible interest in Dak Prescott and DK Metcalf’s future in Seattle, they answer your questions about running back Zach Charbonnet and Cardinals QB Kyler Murray in Four Down Territory, they hear what Berry Bonds about Satchel Paige in the Timeline, and they break down what they find the most fascinating elements of this Seahawks team is right now. 

We already miss Tim. Marshy Marsh is here and he's donning a lil cuck hat. Fun with time zones. Iggy takes a break 8 minutes in to go get coffee. Smuggling coffee back rectally. Marsh is a real puckhead. Jackson conjured up a little exit poll. Jackson wasn't recruited out of high school (because of politics). Jamie Rivers enjoys a good speedo. Redbirds got the win at Rickwood Field last night. Fox knocked it out the park with the broadcast last night. Audio of Brendan Donovan talking about the experience of playing in that special game. Barry Bonds says he'd take Satchel Paige deep. Pitching stats from back in the day. Banty managers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We already miss Tim. Marshy Marsh is here and he's donning a lil cuck hat. Fun with time zones. Iggy takes a break 8 minutes in to go get coffee. Smuggling coffee back rectally. Marsh is a real puckhead. Jackson conjured up a little exit poll. Jackson wasn't recruited out of high school (because of politics). Jamie Rivers enjoys a good speedo. Redbirds got the win at Rickwood Field last night. Fox knocked it out the park with the broadcast last night. Audio of Brendan Donovan talking about the experience of playing in that special game. Barry Bonds says he'd take Satchel Paige deep. Pitching stats from back in the day. Banty managers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In hour 3 Andy and Randy bring you an NFL No Huddle just weeks before camp starts, and with the NBA Draft less than a week away, have the Hawks made up their mind? ALSO... SPORTS JEOPARDY!

Hall of Famer Satchel Paige started his career pitching in the Negro leagues and later became a major league star. Author Larry Tye tells his story in Satchel. Plus, Justin Chang reviews Inside Out 2.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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As MLB prepares for its highly anticipated Tribute to the Negro Leagues game at the historic Rickwood Field on June 20th, several special events and projects are happening in conjunction to celebrate the occasion. One of the most exciting for card collectors is a special trading card collection from Topps. The Topps collection features hand-drawn artwork by former MLB player and renowned artist Micah Johnson. In an exclusive one-on-one conversation with Marc Cheatham (Cheats) of the Black Baseball Mixtape podcast, Johnson, 33, called this collaboration with Topps, “The perfect project.” He said the project was “very grueling” due to the intense research he had to put in on each of the six subjects: Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Willie Mays, Larry Doby, and Monte Irvin.Please enjoy this special episode of the Black Baseball Mixtape — Subscribe, Rate, and Review. You can subscribe everywhere podcasts are streaming.

For years, names like Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Satchel Paige were well known as legends in the Negro Leagues, but unrecognized in the record books alongside their white contemporaries. Last week that changed, as a nearly quarter-century long endeavor to collect and verify decades of statistics was unveiled for the first time. The news seems to have been met with every emotion under the sun: confusion, anger, disdain, but not joy. And part of that is because many are confused as to what's actually happening. This story was never about Josh Gibson unseating Ty Cobb as the single season batting average leader. It was about presenting the statistics of major professional baseball leagues as evidence to support the legends that played. So Today, our host Clinton Yates sits on the other side of the table and joins our very own Alex Hyacinthe to break down what this process undertook, and what this really means for baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the fall of 1967, the National Hockey League underwent major expansion, doubling the size of the league from its original six to 12 teams which included teams on the west coast of the United States. One of the teams that brought the NHL to the Pacific coast was the California Golden Seals along with the Los Angeles Kings. The Seals were hockey's representative in the San Francisco Bay area although they played mostly in the East Bay in Oakland. In this episode of the podcast, host Dana Auguster highlights the Seals short stay in both the bay area and the NHL itself as they became the last team in a major sports league here in North America to fold. Later in the show, we will examine MLB's decision to add the statistics from players from the Negro Leagues into the official record books of professional baseball. With the edition of players such as Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and Satchel Paige, many of the record holders of certain statistics have now changed. To wrap up the show, we will send a heartfelt and solemn shout out two two hall of fame athletes that we had lost leading up to this episode. The first is Hall of Fame center for the Oakland Raiders Jim Otto and the second, another all-time center, this time in basketball, Bill Walton. To contact the show you could e-mail us at Historically.Speaking.Sports@gmail.com or you could follow us on Twitter at Historically Sp2.

It's NBA Finals Time! The Celtics v. Mavs! Is Kristaps Porziņģis the wild card? Can Holliday shut down Luka? Is it live by the three die by the three for the Celtics? Is Luka the best player in the Finals? Or is it Jayson Tatum? Which coach brings more to the table? How abusive will the Boston fans treat Kyrie?Check out the boys' predictions!But wait, there's more! the Stanley Cup Finals are here too! Is this going to be a defense wins championships series? Is the Panther's goalie the difference maker? Is this Conor McDavid's year? MLB finally gets something right by incorporating Negro League stats into Major League stats. Get to know Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Oscar Charleston, Minnie Minoso, and so so many more baseball legends! Nice work MLB!It's a rare week with no Punchable Faces! But we have a Lasso, pour one out for Dallas Cowboy Guard Larry Allen who passed away unexpectedly. Check out the buzzer beaters!Thanks to Assembly Software for their continued support!

In this clip from the Friday edition of the North Shore Drive podcast, presented by Mike's Beer Bar, host Christopher Carter welcomes Post-Gazette sports columnists Paul Zeise and Jason Mackey to debate MLB's decision to include Negro League stats in its official record book. Is it the proper move by commissioner Rob Manfred to honor legends like the Homestead Grays' Josh Gibson and the Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige? Or does it soften this history of those players' exclusion from MLB under segregation? And to what degree is the incomplete nature of the stats being included relevant in the conversation? Our trio tackles those topics and more.

In this clip from the Friday edition of the North Shore Drive podcast, presented by Mike's Beer Bar, host Christopher Carter welcomes Post-Gazette sports columnists Paul Zeise and Jason Mackey to debate MLB's decision to include Negro League stats in its official record book. Is it the proper move by commissioner Rob Manfred to honor legends like the Homestead Grays' Josh Gibson and the Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige? Or does it soften this history of those players' exclusion from MLB under segregation? And to what degree is the incomplete nature of the stats being included relevant in the conversation? Our trio tackles those topics and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about the changing landscape of collegiate sports after the lawsuit. Jeff buries the Timberwolves and their spotty play. We talk about the Commanders and what their new/old name should be now that there are rumblings that they are considering a name change. Major League Baseball incorporates statistics from the Negro League, but Jeff things they need to do some more research as Satchel Paige only had about 30 victories added.

In the days when professional baseball was segregated into white and Black teams, a Black woman named Toni Stone made history. Stone was a sports phenom, and she rose through the ranks to become the first woman to play regularly in the Negro leagues, a series of men's professional baseball leagues. The teams attracted talented players including Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron. But Stone proved to be of the same caliber — when Aaron was picked up by Major League Milwaukee Braves, Stone took his position at second base with the all-male Indianapolis Clowns in 1953.“I had not heard of Toni Stone, and I was shocked and dismayed and then really not surprised at all, because that's what history does to black women,” said Lydia Diamond, author of the play, “Toni Stone.” “That's what history does to Black people. That's what history does to women of all colors. But then it angered me, and I felt like I had to take it on, and that it was my honor to take it on.”Until recently, Stone's remarkable story had been largely forgotten. Award-winning playwright, Lydia Diamond, takes on Stone's story in a new play featured at The Huntington Theatre.GUESTLydia Diamond, award-winning playwright whose works include “The Gift Horse,” “Smart People,” “Stick Fly” (Broadway) and “The Bluest Eye,” she is an associate professor of playwriting at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and her new play, “Toni Stone,” is running at the Huntington Theatre 

According to legendary Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Belll was so fast, he once hit a line drive up the middle, that hit him in the ass, when he was sliding into second base. This week we do a case study on the great speedster. Just the mere mention of his name, would conjur up, many fantastical stories, by teammates and opponents alike, about his blazing speed. Some true, some no doubt exagerated. This week we examine the man, the myth, the legend, and try to distinguish between reality and the apocryphal. #JameNichols #StarkvilleMississippi #StLouis #StLouisStars #HomesteadGrays #PittsburghCrawfords #JudyJohnson #JoshGibson #OscarCharleston #BuckLeonard #SatchelPaige #ComptonHillsCubs #BillGatewood #MulesSuttles #CienfuegoElefantes #BirminghamBlackBarons #GusGreenlee #SamBankhead EastWestAllStarGame #ClaraBell #RafaelTrujillo #WendellSmith #MonteIrvin

When journalist Lee Hawkins was growing up, his father, Leroy, would have nightmares about his childhood in Alabama. When Lee was in his 30s, he started to have his own nightmares about his childhood in Minnesota. These shared nightmares became a clue that set Lee on a decade-long genealogical journey. In this episode we meet Lee and his Dad, and through them, we discover the roots of What Happened in Alabama?, and reveal the stakes of daring to ask the question – and all the questions that followed.TranscriptLee Hawkins (host): We wanted to give a heads up that this episode includes talk of abuse and acts of violence. You can find resources on our website, WhatHappenedInAlabama.org. Listener discretion is advised. In 2004, when I was 33 years old, my dad called me for the first time in a year. I remember it so well. It was a Saturday. It wasn't long after his retirement party, which I missed, because we weren't talking.[phone ringing] A year may not sound like that long to some of you, but you have to understand, my dad and I used to talk every day. He was my best friend. We stopped talking because I asked my parents to go to therapy. I wanted them to confront some things from our past that had started haunting me as an adult, but they refused. And then a year later, Dad called. That one call turned into hundreds over several years. And what he told me, would change my life forever. Lee Sr.: I really haven't shared any of this shit with anybody, you know. But what it - I'm sorry I'm goin' back in that shit. But you know everybody's life isn't as peachy as people think. My name is Lee Hawkins and this is What Happened In Alabama: The Prologue.[music starts]Before we go much further, I need to tell you how uncomfortable this makes me. I'm a journalist and a writer; and as journalists, we're taught to tell other people's stories — but this story, well, it's all about me and my family. So that takes me out of my comfort zone, but I've learned over the years that sometimes the most powerful story you can tell is your own.So let's start at the beginning. Back home in Maplewood, Minnesota, where I grew up. [game sounds] Maplewood was that suburban American dream – the white fences, green lawns and ranch-style houses. It was the 1980s, so my two sisters and I were always either playing outside or in the house listening to music. My favorite was the handheld Mattel Classic Football 2 game. I used to play that thing all day. [game sounds] We lived and went to school in a predominantly white neighborhood, but we also spent a lot of time in our Black community in Saint Paul, where our church was, and many family and friends lived. Having that balance was a real blessing. A lot of the childhood joy I experienced as a kid was fueled by the time I spent with my Dad and my grandfathers. Playing drums and singing at music gigs. Going to the “Brotherhood Breakfast” – which was a pancake and waffles extravaganza that my church organized for Black fathers and their sons. We talked about everything from the Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes fight to Prince's latest hit.[barbershop sounds] Getting lined up at Mr. Harper's Barbershop – basically one of the few places for a Black man to get a haircut in Saint Paul. And on Sunday we went to Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church.[church music starts] Lee Sr.: [singing] Who's on the lord's side? That's my dad, Lee Roy Hawkins Senior, singing at our church. From the time I was a little kid, it was always me and him. Lee Senior and Lee Junior. Lee Roy and Lee Lee.But there was something bubbling up under our picture perfect surface. [foreboding music starts]Sometimes, my dad would have nightmares. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to his screams. He'd wake the whole house. I'd hear my mom shouting, “Lee Roy, you're having a dream! It's okay, you're having a dream!” She'd say it over and over and eventually he'd wake up and calm down. Like most boys my age, I idolized my dad. I thought he was the most fearless person on Earth, and that he wasn't afraid of anything. So hearing him scream out like that told me that whatever he was dreaming about had to be pretty fierce. I knew better than to go in that room during those nightmares, but one morning, I somehow found the courage to finally ask him, “Dad, what were you dreaming about last night?” He hardly spoke. He just looked down at the floor and said, “Alabama, son. Alabama.”My father was born in 1948 in a small town in Butler County, Alabama, during the height of Jim Crow. He rarely talked about it or what happened while he was there. But Alabama was always with us. It's like he'd packed it into his suitcase when he moved to Minnesota. In his screams at night and in the things he didn't say. I couldn't explain it back then, but it also showed up in how he punished us. Like this one time back in 1979 I was eight years old, and as usual, playing my video game.[video game noises] It was a Sunday. I remember because we'd just come home from church. My dad was in the kitchen putting mayonnaise on a bologna sandwich, and I was in the living room, when suddenly…. TOUCHDOWN![video game beeps]I jumped up man, and I ran over to dad in the kitchen. And I told him, “Dad, dad, I scored a touchdown!” [dark music starts]Instead of congratulating me, he snatched the game from my hand. He threw it down on the ground, and then he picked me up and body slammed me to the linoleum floor. Hard.And then he just started screaming, “Do it on the field! Do it on the field!” Looking up at him from the floor, I was completely bewildered and confused. As an eight year old kid, I had no idea why he'd done that.Like many Black kids we knew, we got the belt whenever we did something wrong. If I try to estimate it, I definitely got whipped with a belt over 100 times throughout my childhood and my teenage years. Both of my parents whipped me with inexplicable anger. You didn't always know when their tempers would be triggered, but when they were, you couldn't forget it. There was a sense of fear of the outside world that hung over our household constantly. When we'd get punished, our parents would tell us that it was to protect us, to keep us from being killed, by the police, by white racists, or even someone from our own Black community. I could sense it in my Dad's nightmares. But I didn't think about it too much until I started to have my own nightmares as an adult. The summer of 2003, I was a journalist in my early thirties, and I'd just landed a job at the Wall Street Journal covering General Motors from Detroit. I had a new apartment, strong friendships and my loving family – my two sisters, my mom, my dad. They all lived in suburbs around the Twin Cities. My parents still lived in Maplewood. Like always, I talked nearly every day to my dad on the phone.I was, in a lot of ways, fulfilling my dreams. But at night, something was happening. I'd fall asleep, and then, I was eight years old again, getting body slammed by my dad. I started having these dreams like multiple times a week. And each dream focused on that same attack.I would wake up sweaty and disoriented, still thinking from the vantage point of that eight year old kid looking up at my dad's face from the floor. Every time it took a few minutes for me to realize that I wasn't still that kid. That I was an adult. I was far away from Minnesota. And I was in my own home. There was one particular night when I realized that the nightmares were seeping into my daily life. I was at a bar with my friends. [bar sounds] The bar was packed. We were standing around tall bar tables, and everyone was talking over everyone. It smelled like Grand Marnier. As my friends talked, all of a sudden their voices became distant. I was standing next to a table, trying to laugh along with everybody, but my mind's eye was on that 8-year old version of me – that little boy who kept springing up in my dreams. I was admonishing myself. I kept thinking over and over about what I could have done to protect him. And then, I leaned back, and suddenly, I was on fire. My shirt had caught the flame of a small candle that was burning on the tabletop. My friend Marcus jumped into action. He started putting out the flames on my arm with his hand while everyone else took a step back.A little later, Marcus made a joke about it and we laughed, but I could tell my friends were baffled, wondering how could I be so out of it that I'd set my arm on a burning candle. What in the world is going on with me? Why can't I stop thinking about stuff that happened two decades ago? That year got harder and harder for me. The endless replay of this past memory, the brain fog, the anxiety, the disorientation, and the anger. The weight of it all became overbearing. So much so that one night I was screaming at my father in the dream. When I woke, I knew I needed to confront my parents. Immediately. I reached for the phone.[phone ringing] I tried to catch my breath while it rang. When my mother answered, I shouted, "Put Dad on the phone!" My heart was pumping outside of my chest. My fists were clenched, and I felt like I could punch through the wall. When he answered, I asked him if he remembered body slamming me to the floor when I was eight years old over a game I was playing. He just sat there listening to me breathing and said, “I don't know. I did a lot of crazy things.” My mom started screaming into the phone, telling me I was being disrespectful.I told them I would stop talking to them forever unless they went to therapy first. They refused. So I hung up the phone. And I didn't talk to my parents for over a year. I was committed, and I was done with them. [music starts]And during that time, I tried to confront my nightmares. I went to therapy. I exercised and started meditating. I did all the things I could do to manage the stress on my body and my mind. And I thought about that conversation with my parents a lot, about how all I had wanted was to know why. Why did they treat me like that as a kid? Intellectually, I knew that in that particular instance, they were trying to teach me a lesson – a lesson that even at eight years old, I had to hurry up and become a man.That's what “do it on the field” means – that Black boys need to make real-world accomplishments if they want to be successful in life. I understood this, but I didn't understand why my dad felt he needed to body slam me. And then my dad called. He told me he'd missed me at his retirement party, and he'd missed all of our hours-long chats. He apologized, and said that he understood that I had been taken for granted, and that I had every right to be upset about everything that happened to me as a kid. It was our separation that made him realize that. He told me he and my mom were ready to go to counseling. And I was too. Lee Sr.: Yeah, but see I got a lot of memories down there that I really didn't wanna deal with, you know? They've been living in this survival, get what you can bullshit all these years, man, it's been like that my whole adult years. Been putting out fires, man, my whole life. My whole adult life. There were so many questions I wanted to ask my parents growing up. Questions about them, about their lives. And about how that affected the choices they made in raising me and my sisters – choices that were imposed on us by our own country, and our country's perception of our place in it. I started with my dad. His life in the south was a mystery to us, and I wanted to know what happened to him. What happened in Alabama?Lee: Tell me about your earliest memory in Greenville and what it was like to grow up there. Lee Sr.: Lived in a little house…had two or three rooms and a kitchen. My dad built the house. When I started working on this project in 2014, Dad really opened up about his life in the Jim Crow south. And I was blessed to be able to record some of our interviews. Some of what he shared were beautiful memories of this little boy we'd never seen pictures of. He shared fond memories of Alabama, especially the baseball field he played on. His team would play during the day. And sometimes Negro League legends like Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige would play there at night. Other memories were super hard for him to revisit. But he courageously kept opening up. He told me about something he'd always been too pained to talk about: how the loss of his mom in 1961, when he was just 12 years old, changed his whole life. Lee Sr.: You know, that was a real devastating thing for me when I lost my mommy. I just can't even, you know, shit, I couldn't, I couldn't make it through that man. And how it felt when, after his mom's death, he moved north to live with one of his older sisters and her husband in MinnesotaLee Sr.: When I had left Alabama, something came out of me, man. A big ass relief. And I didn't even know where I was going. But it was a big ass, just, man like a breath of fresh air, man.Later, he expressed the regret, confusion and rage he felt when he returned to Alabama at 27 years old, when I was just a baby, to bury his father – who was killed.Lee Sr.: I was looking forward for him to see you guys. And I was always thinking I had more time, you know, because he was a healthy guy, man. He was a healthy man. And how hard that return was, for many reasons. Lee Sr.: It was horrible because somebody had killed him, and people were looking at us like trying to figure out what we were gonna do about it. And I was saying, fuck, I got to get through this and get out of this motherfucker. You know, I ain't got time to look for no murderer.As he told me these stories, I realized that my father knew very little about his own upbringing. He had left Alabama at such a young age, and because of that there were so many secrets that were kept from him – and these were the secrets that showed up in his nightmares as an adult. The ones he kept from me. As a journalist, for me, one of the hardest things is to know there's a story there, but to not be able to break it open and just tell it. It was nagging at me, and I knew something had happened in my family to make my parents so extremely fearful for themselves and for us. So in 2015, I took a DNA test.Lee Sr.: And that thing, you know they say, if you don't know where you come from, how the hell you know where you going? For years, I had believed that the stories of Black families like mine were irretrievable, but with the help of that test, my father and I went to work filling in that family tree. I embarked on a genealogical journey for myself, but also for – and often with – my dad. [phone ringing]Lee Sr.: Hello?Lee: Hey, Dad. Lee Sr.: Yeah. Hey, man. Lee: Can you hear me okay? Lee Sr.: Yeah. You're good.Lee: Okay. Good, man. Good. Thanks a lot. Lee Sr.: Oh, yeah. Let's get it. I dug into archives and sifted through census records. I'd call him up when I found new information.Lee: I'm looking at this um, hmm. This genealogy shit is crazy.Lee Sr.: Well, I'll be darned. Lee: Did you realize that when your mom's father was killed, she was nine? Lee Sr.: She was nine? Lee: She was nine. Lee Sr.: No, I didn't know that. Lee: But, you know, your dad has, in the census, he had a couple brothers and sisters that were listed as mulatto. Lee Sr.: Oh, goodness me. The project became so much bigger than discovering our family. It turned into an exploration of American history that no one really likes to talk about: the aftermath of slavery and Jim Crow, a history that shaped my family's experience in America.This is a story about some of the more tragic parts of my family and my country's history. The parts that, amid all the love and the closeness, were buried and rarely if ever discussed. It's about my journey to uncover and understand those tragedies.I did hundreds of interviews. Some of them with family members, others with genealogists and academics on everything from the intergenerational effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants, the effects of slavery on Black America, and even the mental health of the children of people who have been incarcerated or murdered. Even when it didn't seem like it, every interview I did was also a means to understand our family history and in turn myself, so much better. Brandon Jones: Well, we have a lot of old parenting techniques that were picked up and conditioned from slavery that have continued on. Doctor Joy DeGruy talks about this in her book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Prof. Christopher Haveman: There was no real justification – moral justification – for it other than whites had the racist premise that they were civilized and the Indians were “savages” and that the whites could make better use of the land than Indians.Dr. Ruth Thompson-Miller: And for folks who think that, you know, that was like 50, 60, 70 years ago, we've gotten past that – oh, no, no we haven't. The people who lived through it suffered through the violence and everything that went along with being an American living under a system of Jim Crow. They haven't recovered.The punishments, the belt, and the nightmares that haunted me and my father — I knew they couldn't be isolated incidents. They had to be echoes of a deeper shared history. A history that is alive in all of us today. [music]For four years, my dad and I kept calling each other up on the phone to talk through my most recent discoveries. In 2019, he did an epic three-hour interview. It was planned as the last interview that I'd need for him to get it done.Since Dad and I were both still actively involved in music and had just recorded a Christmas song together, we were both looking forward to doing more. I told him I'd come to Minnesota to produce a song for him. And I thanked him for going so deeply into the past with me – that I was proud of him, and that he'd done an amazing job. He asked me, “Son, is there anything else you need?” I said no, but I'd see him soon.Lee Sr.: Alright man, thanks for the call, man. Lee: Okay, talk to you later. Lee Sr.: Keep on keeping on. Love you. Lee: K, love you. Bye. [phone hangs up]Shortly after that, he and my mom went to celebrate their 50th anniversary at the Buddy Guy/Mavis Staples concert, and he had a massive cardiac arrest, right there in the concert venue. Four days later, on February 28, 2019, he died. It was devastating. I think about my dad and the dynamic duo we were. And just like the music we made together in our life, this project was largely inspired by him. Even though it was hard for him at times, he did it, yes for himself, but especially for me. It was the greatest gift he could ever give me. And his unexpected death completely changed the story for me. For all of us. Roberta: He went through so much in his life. Went through so much. He did. This is my mom, Roberta Hawkins. She met my dad while they were both hanging out at McCarron's Lake in Roseville, splashing around on the beach with friends. They were just 14 year old kids. And that concert my dad had the cardiac arrest at was one of the many date nights they went on, this time, in honor of their 50-year wedding anniversary. That teenage love just grew stronger and stronger.On a cold, snowy afternoon in Saint Paul, I sat down with my mom and one of my sisters for a conversation. We'd rescheduled our meeting because of a blizzard earlier that week, so the day we recorded this just happened to be a significant one. Lee: Today is the fourth anniversary of Dad's death, and it's just a coincidence that we're here today talking. Can we reflect on what this means for us? Roberta: One thing, great memories. Great memories. But it's, it's hard because I miss him so much, and life isn't the same. When we sat together on the anniversary of his death, the pain of losing him was still very raw for us. We reflected on dad — and how we missed and loved him.I've come to understand that all of the grief, all of the racism and all of the stressful experiences that started when he came into the world as a child of Jim Crow stayed with him until the day he died. When I think about my dad in the context of American history, I recognize that the country that we all loved – and he defended as part of the Air Force – refused to love him back. Our country, which I also love so deeply, sought to destroy my family by forcing them to live under this brutal caste system for five generations following Emancipation. That's one of the reasons I'm here. I continue with this project, day after day, because I know that without intervention and education, history can repeat itself. I'm doing this for my father, and for my ancestors and elders. But especially for our Black children, and their families. Because the process of breaking the cycles born out of slavery and Jim Crow that many of us inherited and internalized has to start inside of our families. The beauty and the power of our people, and our true, authentic Black identity of unwavering excellence and dignity that comes from those family members who came before us, that's the part we need to celebrate and to keep.Lee: What does family mean to you, and what do you want people to know about you and the family, our listeners? Roberta: I think family means everything, because that's one of the reasons that we can survive, with family. And we all go through a lot. And this has been the hardest part of my life, is – even with my husband gone, and knowing how much he went through in his life. And he was a wonderful, wonderful husband and father. And I just don't know. It's very difficult even to go day to day without him, because he was my best friend, too. When my dad died, I lost my best buddy, a father and a mentor. And in many ways, he was a partner in all of this. He needed to do this work. We needed to do this work. And I believe it's necessary for any cycle breaker, not just for my family but for many other American families.I hope that this podcast can serve as an inspirational blueprint for others looking to discover, investigate and understand their own family history. We can no longer bury the dark parts of American history because it makes people feel uncomfortable. For none of us are responsible for the sins of our forefathers, and we can't rewrite the past. But we certainly can shape the present, and most importantly, the future.This story is mine, yes, but it also belongs to you.[music]CreditsWhat Happened in Alabama is a production of American Public Media. It's written, produced, and hosted by me, Lee Hawkins.Our executive producer is Erica Kraus. Our senior producer is Kyana Moghadam. Our story editor is Martina Abrahams Ilunga. Our producers are Marcel Malekebu and Jessica Kariisa. This episode was sound designed and mixed by Marcel Malekebu. Our technical director is Derek Ramirez. Our soundtrack was composed by Ronen Landa. Our fact checker is Erika Janik.And Nick Ryan is our director of operations.Special thanks to the O'Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism at Marquette University; Dave Umhoefer, John Leuzzi, Andrew Amouzou, and Ziyang Fu; and also thank you to our producer in Alabama, Cody Short. The executives in charge at APM are Joanne Griffith and Chandra Kavati.You can follow us on our website, whathappenedinalabama.org or on Instagram at APM Studios.Thank you for listening.

On this episode of Our American Stories, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, tells the story of a man who became bigger than the game he played—and only thew fastballs...the Midnight Creeper, the Bat Dodger, and the Jump Ball...the list goes on. The astounding thing, though, is that he did this every day for five decades with no relief pitcher. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The history of the Negro Leagues is brought to life with positivity and respect at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. And that wonderful institution's president is the great Bob Kendrick.Mr. Kendrick joins the show to talk about the museum's mission and the history of a potentially forgotten league.Meanwhile Sully proposes retiring Satchel Paige's uniform number and Mr. Kendrick seemed to like the idea.Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter @nlbmprez Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Factor Meals Head to FactorMeals.com/lockedonmlb50 and use code lockedonmlb50 to get 50% off. Amazon Fire TV Fire TV recently created Fire TV Channels to deliver a constant supply of the latest videos from your favorite sports brands, all for free. That includes all of us at Locked On and most of the big pro leagues and college conferences as well. To Learn More, visit www.amazon.com/LockedOnFireTV PrizePicks Go to PrizePicks.com/lockedonmlb and use code lockedonmlb for a first deposit match up to $100! eBay Motors With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it's easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel New customers, join today and you'll get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms… 

In this latest episode of Baseball Tonight, Buster Olney and ESPN.com Senior Writer David Schoenfield. react to the big news of Zack Wheeler signing a record-setting extension with the Philadelphia Phillies, Matt Chapman and the San Francisco Giants' agreement on a $54 million deal, Ronald Acuna Jr.'s injured knee and the Boston Red Sox's Vaughn Grissom's absence on opening day. Sarah Langs, also joins the show to play the numbers game, and then Anthony Gwynn Jr., radio and VT analyst for the San Diego Padres, jumps on with Buster to preview that team. Next, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, shares some amazing stories about Ryan Howard, Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and MLB The Show 24. Finally, Steve Sparks, color commentator for the Houston Astros steps in to fill you in on everything you need to know about that team before the season gets in full swing. Leave Buster a message by calling 406-404-8460 0:00 - MLB Latest News 4:00 - David Schoenfield  16:10 - Sarah Langs 25:15 - San Diego Padres Team Preview  33:55 - Bob Kendrick  55:28 - Houston Astros Team Preview 01:04:43 - Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this latest episode of Baseball Tonight, Buster Olney and ESPN.com Senior Writer David Schoenfield. react to the big news of Zack Wheeler signing a record-setting extension with the Philadelphia Phillies, Matt Chapman and the San Francisco Giants' agreement on a $54 million deal, Ronald Acuna Jr.'s injured knee and the Boston Red Sox's Vaughn Grissom's absence on opening day. Sarah Langs, also joins the show to play the numbers game, and then Anthony Gwynn Jr., radio and VT analyst for the San Diego Padres, jumps on with Buster to preview that team. Next, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, shares some amazing stories about Ryan Howard, Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and MLB The Show 24. Finally, Steve Sparks, color commentator for the Houston Astros steps in to fill you in on everything you need to know about that team before the season gets in full swing. Leave Buster a message by calling 406-404-8460 0:00 - MLB Latest News 4:00 - David Schoenfield  16:10 - Sarah Langs 25:15 - San Diego Padres Team Preview  33:55 - Bob Kendrick  55:28 - Houston Astros Team Preview 01:04:43 - Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1956, Satchel Paige pitched in the biggest game in minor league baseball history. He was fifty years-old, the ageless wonder, making an appearance in Florida near the end of his long, storied and career. And somehow, that wasn't the end. All that, plus Miami baseball, a no-hitter record, and the surprising Cuban baseball rivalry in the 1940s. (CORRECTION: At 23:30, the year 1955 is said. In actuality, the year was 1958, as mentioned in the previous sentence.) Pick up your copy of FLORIDA! right here! Read more about Satchel Paige in Miami right here!   All of the music was originally composed. 

Happy Birthday Jeff Van Note, Braves Jesse Chavez signs with ChiSox, did Kirk Herbstreit steer 5-star QB away from UGA? 2 Falcons elected to Hall of Fame, NFL Award surprises including Taylor Swift joke and appearance by the man formerly known as Prince.....Harry, Jets owner attacks own team, 49ers having tough week in Vegas after fire alarm pulled, Bo Jackson blackmailed by his own family, MLB commish screws up again, A's have no place to play after 2024, SEC revenue up, Mets dysfunction, dumb Super Bowl week questions, MLB players in Olympics, MLB expansion, Hawks stay quiet at trade deadline, the legend of Dit Clapper, remembering Clete Boyer, still hate Danny White, bastard Brit chess champ drinks himself to death, Sir Charles stays true, Satchel Paige, plus Pete's Tweets, This Day in Sports History, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Iowa baseball chronologist Steve Dunn ("'Pug,' 'Fireball,' and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa") joins for a surprisingly rich journey into the history of professional baseball in the Hawkeye State's largest city - currently home to the Diamond Baseball Holdings-owned Triple-A affiliate of the National League's Chicago Cubs. Besides today's Iowa Cubs, the city of Des Moines has been home to minor league baseball in various forms since 1887 - featuring a long list of stars that have played or managed clubs there, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Satchel Paige, Red Faber, Buck O'Neil, Ryne Sandberg, Tony LaRussa, Charlie Grimm, and Stan Hack. Dunn walks us through some of Des Moines baseball's most noteworthy ballparks (such as Western League Park, home of the first night game featuring a permanent lighting system on 5/2/1930); circuits (like the long-forgotten Three–I [Class B] League featuring the reborn 1959-61 Des Moines Demons); barnstormers (the Negro League "All Nations" club); and eyebrow-raising team names - from Midgets to Prohibitionists to Undertakers.   + + +   SPONSOR THANKS: Royal Retros (promo code: SEATS):  https://www.royalretros.com/?aff=2     BUY/READ EARLY & OFTEN: 'Pug,' 'Fireball,' and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa (2023): https://amzn.to/4bqMApS   FIND & FOLLOW: Website: https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodSeatsStill Instagram (+ Threads): https://www.instagram.com/goodseatsstillavailable/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodSeatsStillAvailable/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@goodseatsstillavailable

Bob Kendrick joins fans at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's "Black Aces" exhibit for an in-depth discussion with two acclaimed authors. Sridhar Pappu discusses his book, "The Year of the Pitcher", chronicling Bob Gibson's historic 1968 season, set "against the backdrop of assassinations, while boys boarded planes to Saigon and riots swept through American cities, forever changing the fabric of this country." Then Luke Epplin sits down for a conversation about his book, "Our Team", "the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige, a legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues whose belated entry into the majors whipped baseball fans across the country into a frenzy." Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - @nlbmprezRead Siridhar Pappu's "The Year of the Pitcher" - AmazonRead Luke Epplin's "Our Team" - AmazonTo support the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and preserve the legacy of Buck O'Neil, please visit ThanksAMillionBuck.comVisit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - NLBM.comSee and Support the Dream of the NEW Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Pitch for the Future

Kate Claxton's Six Rules for Staying Young versus Satchel Paige's, plus the changing nature of public danger; more on fighting in baseball, with some 1924 ejections; more on Ed Kontechy, the “Bohemian Chocolate-Dropper,” and what that means (plus “enrober-strokers?”); umpires versus photographers in Cincinnati; have you ever tried Kipling, the biggest tomato, so much more! The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game's present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they'll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can't get anybody out?

On this episode of Our American Stories, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, tells the story of a man who became bigger than the game he played—and only thew fastballs...the Midnight Creeper, the Bat Dodger, and the Jump Ball...the list goes on. The astounding thing, though, is that he did this every day for five decades with no relief pitcher. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's no shortage of sports teams that change cities or names over the course of their franchise history. But what about the teams that just cease to exist? Perhaps no team story packs more drama into one year of existence than that of Los Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo. It's a story that combines one of the most celebrated names in baseball history with one of the biggest names in twentieth-century dictatorship. This special episode comes from the audiobook edition of Mobituaries. You can learn more here: http://bit.ly/MoAudioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Season 5 premiere, Charles & Ernie welcome two sports icons into the Steam Room. Draymond Green stops by to chat about Chris Paul coming off the bench for GSW, what really happened with last year's team, and defend this year's team again the Chuckster's skepticism. Dusty Baker joins to talk retirement life, his role in inventing the High Five, and awe the guys with stories about Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Negro Leagues' biggest star, pitcher Satchel Paige, is a figure who at times feels more myth… more legend than man: his fastball was supposedly clocked at 105 mph, he estimated that he threw more than 50 no-hitters throughout his career, and he claimed to have had such a command of the baseball that he could allegedly work both corners of a chewing gum wrapper…and even his age itself is a hotly debated topic still to this day.  So today, guest host Justin Tinsley explores the life and legacy of Satchel Paige, a man whose legendary feats may always be debated, but whose impact on the game is without question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices