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The Road to Integration
FromBlack Diamonds
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Apr 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Bob Kendrick takes an in-depth look at the history of baseball's segregation, and the forces who paved the way for Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier.Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nlbmprezVisit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - https://nlbm.comInterviews with Bill Veeck, Happy Chandler, Shirley Povich, Monte Irvin, and Calvin Griffith courtesy of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit https://www.kentuckyoralhistory.orgInterview with Sam Lacy courtesy of the SABR Oral History Collection - https://sabr.org/Lester Rodney selections from “Crime of the Big Leagues” produced by Tomorrow Media and Rough House
Released:
Apr 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (85)
"The Homestead Grays" Part 1: Bob Kendrick on Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard, and the Most Dominant Franchise in Baseball History: Bob Kendrick takes you inside the archives of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to tell you what made the Homestead Grays the most dominant franchise in baseball history (0:00), how Cumberland Posey and Gus Greenlee tore the city of Pittsburgh in half (2:58), why "The Black Babe Ruth" undersold Josh Gibson as a nickname (18:59), and the story of the iconic Josh Gibson-Satchel Paige showdown of 1942 (25:22). by Black Diamonds