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Hi, I'm Bill Overton. As our

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series is shown, there were many great

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players from the Negro Leagues, some that

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we all know, like Jackie Robinson, Hank

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Aaron, Satrick Page, and

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some unfortunately that only the players

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from that time remember. Our episode

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today focuses on the players' memories

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of the greats from the Negro League era. Hall

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of Famer Hank Aaron remembers that the level

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of play in the Negro Leagues offered

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players a chance to play in Major

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League baseball.

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When I think back and I've talked with Willie Mays about

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the Negro Leagues, how special that time

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was, What was the cohesiveness, what was

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the general philosophy of the players that played

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in the Negro leagues?

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I think, Ron, I think that we all felt

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like if we could be successful playing in the

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Negro League, that we could probably play in the major leagues.

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All of us basically felt that way because

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usually the players that especially if you're

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a young player and you was playing against players who

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had played a little bit longer

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than you had. They had been

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in the some of them had been in the mount of League,

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some of them had the experience of playing against

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great Negro League players, so we all

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felt like if we could have a

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good year, good season, that you had chance

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to play in in in the major leagues.

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Outfielder Gerald Casten even

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calls growing up watching the great talent

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and then being able to play in the league himself.

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They had so many stars in

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that league who had so much talent. You

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had an opportunity to see them growing

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up as well as when you played in the league itself.

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How would you describe them?

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I was that in the hot, hot,

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dedicated ball just

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at the time that you knew it coming

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along there. It wasn't the right

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time. My mother

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used to taking the ce the name of the league

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back in fifty four fifty five. He

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tag of lunch on Sunday and they playing double hitters

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there. We went to see him. I mean him

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be packed and those gas

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was really good. But I had no idea

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one day I'll be playing in there. You know,

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I always loved the playball. I was pretty good

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in basketball. Then

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he'll be football. And I know my baseball coach,

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and I may say he in high school. His

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name was George Cartman. He told me, he

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said, Castle, you a football player, you

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got a future in baseball. He said, let

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that football coach in and the mother idious

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knock out. They brain. So

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I quit. I had made the football

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team. So I told coach

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Tobin and I said, mister Coche want

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me to quit playing because he want me to, you

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know, for the baseball team. Fac I got a future

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in that. He said, you wait out, I see go George.

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Here's pitcher Hank Mason remembering

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the great players that came out of the Nagle Bags.

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Let me tell you this, some of

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the best baseball players in the world

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come out of the Negro League. And

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Kansas City Monarch sent more

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black baseball, well they had

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to be black, sent more baseball

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players to the Major League

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than any other team in the

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Negro League, or maybe all

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of them combined. There

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was Jackie Robertson,

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Henry Mason, Poncho Herrera,

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Ernie Banks. All of those

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guys came out of the Negro League,

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Hank Aaron of Winnie

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Mays. All of those guys

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came out of the Negro League, and

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they were great baseball player. Now

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I wasn't great, but I didn't

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make it.

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Pitchure Eugene Scrokes recalls the style

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of play in the Negro leagues and how it created

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stars like Willie Mace.

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All of them are very special baseball

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players. What was it that they all did

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that made them so special?

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Eugene, Well, you know we were a made

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You know, he could make some He

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made some some ou standing catches,

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you know over his head, catch you that

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that you never seen that around

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here. He could ruin, he

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could throw, and he

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was a you know, all round ball player.

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Gerald Casten becalls the best pitcher that he

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ever caught for during his time in the

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Negro leagues.

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You were a catcher who was the best pitcher

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that you ever caught?

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Oh, I would say old Bulldog George

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Thomas. He was about roommate in college too,

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and we played sadlo ball

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in Chicago before we went to play

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foot our belieby the Colors every styd.

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Those guys they good fastball. I don't

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know how the tab of bed, but now

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the tab of ending the ninety ninety two ninety

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three with Bulldog Man he had held back.

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I had ever sponge in my head and

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that catched me to catch that guy.

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Pitcher. Eugene Scruggs remember

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striking out Negro League star Bob Wilson

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three times in front of MLB scouts.

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You played against the Kansas City Monarchs,

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and one of the Monarchs players was Bob Wilson,

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and he was really looking forward to playing

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this particular game. Yeah, tell me that

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about that game.

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Yeah, Bob, Bob

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Wilson, he was, Uh.

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He lives in California now,

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so I was told because I

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haven't seen him since the days

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in baseball. But this

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particular game that we were playing in Grand

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redbn uh

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Bob, he he come up to the bed

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three times and uh

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so each time I scrubbed Bob out

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and he come back and told me.

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Uh, he said, you.

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Know anything, he said, I said,

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I tried all I could to hit that ball. Okay,

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but dad talk as s curveball.

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This I could handle.

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And of course he was being scouted that day

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for the major leagues? Was he not? And you he went

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over three You struck him out three times?

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Yeah, he was. He was a his guy

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was all understand he was. Maybe

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that's why that he had strug

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him out, you know, kind of I'm kind

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of there, do you know somebody they're watching.

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His catcherest Fan remembers

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being amazed at the level of talent in

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the Negro leagues.

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Well, I tell you what. I

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was a young kid fourteen,

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fifteen years old, fifteen when

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I went in the Negro League, and

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some of those guys like Dreams

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and the name of Dreason went

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on to the majors. I got a chance

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to see side of pitch and

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I think, no, I didn't

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see Josh s Gipson. I read a book on that.

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What he was talking about points about hitting.

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But a lot of those guys, you

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know, as a kid, you don't remember. But

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the talent battle, Oh my goodness,

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those guys could hit and

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run. I mean they could

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run. I've seen guys

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were playing teams like

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the Birmingham Black baron last game we

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played, they have two lead

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off men. They and during

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that time we were young, we didn't gonna thank not Fundamental

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Couch got it laid ball at our first baby Nick

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thing. You know they aren't standing up on Burnley because

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nobody covers third and

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the title Well, I mean this is something

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we think it out being kids.

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We'll sit there and watch the team. If you

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don't cover that day, we're gonna steal it. And

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all the things that we learned in

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baseball. We have coaches. We

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just got out there and played and figured it out ourselves.

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But as far as the guys

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that I've seen, I've

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seen the greatest first

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day we ever want to say. His name was James

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Ivory, played with the Birmingham Black

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Bearon great son of philom

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Jessin Mitchell and my manager

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played professional baseball. He

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was a three party four hitter in

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triple late in professional baseball,

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and he fell on the same patagory

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high bed they didn't have. They

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had enough black palls on

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the team. Now, let me mind

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remind you this was not a baseball rule.

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This was a rule that the owners

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and the executive executives sit down

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and made up the only two

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black players to a team.

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Pitcher J. C. Casselebury recalls

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his teammates being the best players he had

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seen, including a player who was valued

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higher than Hank Garrett.

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Ja C.

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Let me ask you a little bit about the players that

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you played against her you've witnessed and watched,

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because the Negro League certainly had so many

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great You already mentioned about Willie Mays

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and others like that Hank Aaron, But

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tell me some of the other players that stood out

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to you while you were playing, either playing

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against or playing.

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With the guys. Well, the guy

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that stood out with me was most

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of guys on my team, Joe

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Cherry. We picked

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him up and Virginia Beach one

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Sunday. H he was like

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me. He could catch, he could catch, he could

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play first page, second base.

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Uh.

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As a matter of fact, when we played in Yanks, stay and I caught

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him.

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Uh.

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Another guy was Van Rushing out

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of Arizona.

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Van Rushing. I think they sold Hank

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Aaron for twenty five thousand and they

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sold Van Rushing for like fifty thousand.

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Varan Rushman was the only guy that they

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sold for more money than than hack Era. And

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then we had another guy named uh kinda

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getty shortstop. Hecker

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was shortstop from New York City. And

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then we had a guy by the name of Green

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shortstop. And then we had double duty, who

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was the left and right handed pitcher, and

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uh Carl Phony. Carl

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Phony, I can't understand today why

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he didn't make it to the major league because he had he

9:52

was a pitcher, but he had everything he

9:55

had. He was throwing. Uh

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slaughtered before slater

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were fashionable, and

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he had every pitch he threw

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moved, His fastball

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moved it jumped everything

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he do then. That was

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Bobby Deale, Bobby Miville and I played

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together in Birmingham and the industrialg

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Bobbyville threw so hard he

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the catcher. We at big man Bobmyville

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picked his hand through the net in

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field.

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Original Howard recalls his memory

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of Uncle Jim Taylor as his manager.

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With your close friend, Candy, Jim Taylor, you

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alluded to him a little bit earlier, legendary

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Negro league manager. Tell me a little bit about

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his history.

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I loved Dule Jim. Every baby, everybody,

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everybody called him Uncle Jim, Oscar Charleston

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and Buck

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O'Neil, all young man's everybody

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called him Uncle Jim. I don't

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know if I was as

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close to Uncle Jim as a kid can

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be you a child can be to you, old

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man. For some reason, we hit it off.

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He comes through. I'm a black

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team. Well I was his team,

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bad boss, all these black teams that came in here in

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the South. The play to pay the

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student to take and again

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I met up with Jim when he when they came

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in, and we hit it off. And sago

11:16

in Chicago, periodic for you to see him and and

11:19

uh in fact that I worked the East West

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Game in nineteen forty six forty seven, which

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is the All Star game. But

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he was, he was just he's just so much I

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love I love him talk a

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long part. Oh he could talk so bad.

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The most brought up name when asking about

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legends in the Negro League was

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the Satchel Page. E. Lloyd

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Robinson remembers Satchel's ability to make

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his pitches move.

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You mentioned about Satchel Page. That is the name,

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probably along with Buck O'Neill and maybe

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a handful of others that people remember

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most about the Negro League. Tell me a little

11:53

bit about him, because aside from being nice,

11:55

tell me about his baseball skills.

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Oh, he could throw the ball leg lightning,

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and they didn't do nothing that went straight.

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And everything he throw it went up down

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cross ways, aside ways or some kind

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of way. He never he never

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throw a State price.

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Yeah he has.

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And Buck Leonard hit the ball so hard and

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looked like.

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He was just throwing them up here.

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Number Reginald Howard

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also remembers the influence of cool

12:21

Papa Bell and the work ethic of Satchel

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Page that made him a highly paid player.

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Most people, if they know anything about the negro legs

12:28

know those last three names about h

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you know Coo, Papa Bell and the others. Tell me about

12:33

them, what you know? What was fact and what was

12:35

fiction about him?

12:36

Uh?

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I don't want to try to stay with them more than Fixtion

12:40

Suther. I can't under stay with that. Am I

12:42

even discuss it?

12:43

But uh, a lot like that?

12:45

What from Jimmy Crush you I don't know if you know Jimmy

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was on that same team. He lived in the same building my brother

12:50

lived in in Chicago, and every

12:52

time I go Chicago, I would just got

12:54

to get with him and spend as much time as I possibly

12:57

could. Uh, Jimmy And

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the one thing that was so outstanding about

13:02

Bail and I really admire for

13:05

this. I've never heard anybody

13:08

echo or disparaging worry about him. The

13:10

first class gentleman all

13:12

the way around. And I just, I just I

13:15

really admire that so much.

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When it came to Satchel Page, you know, the great line

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is that he was so fast that he could turn out the

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light and he could get more.

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That's that's fool. I don't even

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like to discuss that kind of stuff. No,

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I'm not serious. That's

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a waste of time when we could do something meaningful

13:33

that said that other people can even we can get out

13:35

meaning for information and not throughout that kind of garbage.

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Well, when you say meaningful, tell me a little bit. What's

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meaningful to you is somebody that played in

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the negro leags.

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Well let's take it from from a social

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standpoint of view. Let's take let's

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take saxral page and

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this thing I loved about Secha A lot of people

13:53

will looms. I explained to you Lego

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League games being played three days a week,

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Okay, let's

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day Satuo pitchure Saturday

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at Movemart Barton, Kansas City,

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or gets the Memphis Red six and he pitches

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a good game. Or at Sunday,

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the fourth

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days is it turned again. But

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they're playing somebody in uh Lloyd,

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Wisconsin. You know a

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little bit of a Barsoman now just a

14:23

little bit ahead of a high school team. So

14:25

why would they use it wouldn't use a good pitcher on that

14:27

day. However, three weeks ahead

14:29

of time, a team in minor in North

14:31

Dakota or in Rochester neet

14:34

Rochester, Minnesota, say hey,

14:36

we want to hire Satcha for that day. I called

14:39

him a hire gun. And Satcha would

14:41

go there and pitch for that for that team on

14:43

that on that on that Wednesday. But

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he would pitch there. But then he come back Thursday,

14:49

Friday, Saturday, Sunday. They playing in Memphis

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Ballpark four in Satchue Pages pitch. He

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did a lot of that. He did a lot of

14:56

leading the club that he was with and go

14:58

and pitch out out our side of the Negro

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Leaf. And that's why he was one

15:03

of the highest plee players in baseball.

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Pitcher Hank Mason because his time playing

15:08

with Satchel Page and his ability

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to control his pitches, along

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with his humor and kindness.

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Let me tell you I never played

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with Satchel in the Negro

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League, but after I

15:23

advanced to tripa

15:25

a baseball with the Miami

15:28

Marlins, that's where I played

15:30

with Sachel. Sachel,

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his strength was controlled.

15:36

He could throw it about any place that he

15:39

wanted to throw it and as hard

15:41

as he wanted to throw it. If he wanted

15:43

to throw it on the outside corner, he could

15:45

do. I tell you what. When

15:49

we would go to the book, and Satchel and

15:51

I were relief

15:53

pitches. I was a long

15:55

man and he was a short man. And

15:59

Satchel could take a chewing

16:02

gum wrapper and

16:05

throw it just right on the corner,

16:07

down the middle, any place that he

16:09

wanted to throw it. And I think that

16:12

was Satchel's success.

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He also had a great personality, did he not.

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I've heard that he was very.

16:18

Funny, very

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very funny. Yeah he was. You

16:22

know, I don't know how much money Satchel

16:25

was making, but some

16:28

mornings, like we were

16:30

in Toronto or Montreal

16:32

or someplace like that, he always

16:34

called me country boy. I came

16:37

from Marshall, Missouri, and he was from

16:39

Kansas City, and he

16:41

would call me up say hey, country boy,

16:44

you want something to eat for

16:46

breakfast?

16:47

I said yeah, He.

16:48

Said, well come on over, and I would

16:50

go over and he'd have a corn

16:53

bee, pash poach days

16:56

and hash browns

16:58

toes and all of that kind of

17:00

stuff. And I couldn't afford that kind of

17:02

stuff, not on my salary, but

17:05

he could do it. And maybe

17:09

six or seven times while

17:12

we were on a road trip, that's what he would

17:14

do. He would invite you over to his

17:17

room in the morning time to eat breakfast

17:20

with him.

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Picture. Don Woods remembers the first time

17:23

he saw Satral Page and the advice that Satchel

17:25

Page gave it.

17:27

Tell me about the first time you ever saw

17:29

Satchel Page.

17:30

Okay, the first time

17:33

I met sech Is, which

17:36

I didn't realize until after. We had a

17:38

conversation about some of the things

17:41

he has accomplished, and

17:43

I realized then that I'm in a company

17:45

of somebody who's really one

17:48

of a king. He

17:50

was a person that was was one

17:53

who knew what he was talking about, especially with baseball.

17:57

He was very confident, and

18:00

I was really really impressed

18:02

with him, and to me saying

18:05

to myself, here, I'm sitting in the nug

18:07

out next to this guy calls at

18:09

your page.

18:11

What was the best piece of advice he ever gave you,

18:13

Don.

18:14

He told me one of the things I can recall very

18:16

well. He says, when you're pitching, never

18:19

ever get nervous, because your

18:22

opponent you're better. They can tell

18:24

if you're nervous. Always take control

18:26

of the game and know what

18:28

you're doing, and become confident

18:31

when you're out there.

18:32

You know, it's always been said about him, how fast

18:35

he was. And of course the great line is,

18:37

I think this came from his roommate said he was so fast

18:39

that when he turned off the light, he got in bed before it

18:41

got dark. But tell me, what were the little

18:44

things about him that made him special?

18:46

Okay?

18:47

I think that some of the things that he

18:49

did especially And I

18:51

asked him, you know, I said, you know such,

18:54

I've read a lot of things about you and

18:56

statements they say that you've done over

18:58

period of over five

19:01

decades that you've been playing baseball. And

19:03

I said that how much of that is true? He

19:05

said, let me tell you one thing. He says,

19:08

any statement I made, I had

19:10

to proof those statements to make sure

19:12

it was correct. So he says,

19:15

anything you read about me is

19:17

true.

19:19

Everything I'm hearing. Everything I'm hearing

19:21

about him is that he had a sense of humor

19:23

as well.

19:24

Oh he was, he was, and I think

19:26

that probably made him as

19:30

such a great ball player. He

19:32

never, to me, seemed to be tight,

19:35

and he enjoyed the game.

19:37

Do you remember any of the stories that he shared

19:39

with you that made you laugh?

19:41

Oh?

19:41

Yeah, he wanted The stories he

19:43

told me was that when he went

19:46

to I forget exactly the

19:48

location, but he would always guarantee

19:51

wherever he played, he was

19:53

guaranteed that the first six outs would

19:55

be struckouts. In addition

19:58

to that, during mid during

20:00

a h say, for instance, a

20:03

third inning went out, he would

20:05

bring his outfielders into the dugout,

20:07

hel him sit down, and he would pitch, and

20:09

they could never get the ball out and outfield.

20:12

Why was that?

20:13

I mean?

20:13

What was his pitches? What did he do with

20:15

his throws?

20:16

You know what?

20:17

I think?

20:17

What made him so great?

20:20

He had pinpoint control. All

20:23

of his pinches, pitches were knee

20:25

high. He can

20:28

you know, he could throw a

20:30

ball over a match book with no

20:33

problem every time.

20:36

By doing that, did the opposition the other

20:38

players get upset that maybe he was showing

20:40

them up? Or was that not a part of the

20:42

baseball lore at that time?

20:44

I think that they considered

20:46

him as being someone above

20:49

level of everybody else, and

20:51

they didn't make him man. They were not mad,

20:54

but in fact they were praising him

20:57

on the telling he had in a lot of cases

20:59

as oh old as he was playing against

21:01

those younger guys.

21:03

Was there a game that you happened to witness personally

21:05

that you'll never forget that he pitched.

21:09

Well. When he played with us,

21:12

which was sixty three. He was

21:14

there as a show card. He

21:16

played a couple of innings and

21:19

I know at that time he was like fifty

21:22

some years old, and the

21:24

few better that he faced,

21:27

out of maybe six betters, he

21:29

struck out three of them. So he still

21:31

had his speed, he had still

21:33

had his control, and

21:36

he was just something to see.

21:38

Yeah, how old was he? Because there was always

21:40

some question about his age when he was playing,

21:42

particularly later in his career, Like you you just

21:45

talked about.

21:46

Yeah, well, there's always been

21:49

a saying that nobody knew exactly

21:51

how old he was. So it

21:55

said that he was like, I

21:58

guess when he finished playing, he was like at

22:01

the age of fifty five. I he said something

22:04

about he's who harder than anyone

22:06

in his generation. But

22:10

the Rectors says that really, who

22:12

knows how old he was?

22:15

Infielder Dennis Biddle closes out

22:17

an episode by remembering some of his heroes

22:20

and his memory of meeting Shackie.

22:22

Robinson, players like Ted double

22:24

Do the Red Cliff. He should have been in the Hall

22:26

of Fame. He didn't play

22:28

in the Major League because he missed his calling.

22:33

Josh Johnson. He

22:35

was a catcher for the home tirh grade. When

22:38

Josh Jeffson came in as a youngster,

22:40

it took his plate because he went to

22:42

the military. Bobbie

22:46

Robinson, who was a human

22:48

bathroom playing around third base, traveled

22:52

with me many years. Told

22:55

me about Ty Cobb and

22:58

how time him in to car was good

23:00

friend and nobody liked

23:03

call Cogs. That

23:06

was the other players too. I

23:09

met Jackie in nineteen fifty

23:11

five. Uh,

23:14

God, just came in and

23:16

I was with the Cubs. I was with the Cubs

23:19

of the free agent and Jackie

23:21

and I had a dinner downtown Chicago.

23:23

Not Jacket, just me.

23:25

It was five of us heard

23:27

the bank, Jean Baker, Rock,

23:29

Cameron, Llen, Nukelem didn't show up. But

23:33

you know, and I often talk about

23:35

this because it's the highlight, one of the highlights

23:38

on my life, meeting Jacket. I had heard

23:40

about him, I read about him and

23:43

things that he went through. And

23:45

here I am sitting across the table from

23:47

him, and he

23:49

didn't look real to me. His hair

23:52

was white, and I

23:55

I looked at him and he said, you know, kid,

23:57

He called me kid. They

24:00

cannot write in a book of

24:02

showing a movie what I went through and

24:07

see. I knew what jack

24:09

had gone through in the Negro League and made

24:11

the league too, because hey, I gone through

24:13

it myself and the Negro League

24:16

many time.

24:16

I wanted to go home to Mama.

24:19

So I asked, mister Robinson, did you ever

24:22

think about quitting?

24:24

I did.

24:25

He looked at me and said every day. He

24:29

said, I thought about it every day, But I have

24:31

made a problem that I would open the

24:33

door so other Blacks will be able to play

24:35

in the Major League. That's something

24:38

mister Robinson told me that I'll

24:40

always be here. His

24:43

wife was one hundred years old now as

24:46

a friend of mine. I have pictures

24:48

of me and her and I

24:55

that woman had some curse. That knew

24:58

the woman.

24:58

I think.

25:01

If he did some things that I

25:04

don't. I don't understand how she made it too,

25:08

but she did. So

25:11

That's one of the highlights of my life meeting Jackie

25:13

Robinson. Of course I met a lot of other

25:16

players. I met Frank Robinson, and I met

25:18

uh Well. Of course, Willie made was

25:20

one of us. Hank Erret and I was

25:23

good friends. But

25:25

there was a lot of other players. Buck

25:28

Leonard should have been in the Hall of Fame. He

25:30

should be in the Hall of Fame.

25:32

Uh.

25:34

There are a lot of other players too. There was a

25:36

lot of players that I saw play, Sir.

25:39

I saw them play, unbelievable

25:42

players. It was in the thirties

25:45

that would have been Hall of famers in the Major

25:48

League, but they never had

25:50

a chance.

25:59

Behind the Bear Voices from

26:01

the Negro Leagues is narrated

26:03

by Bill Overton, produced by Taylor

26:05

Haber. Executive producers

26:08

are Jason Wykehelp, Darren Peck,

26:10

and Ron Barr.

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