Category Archive: History Videos

Dec 02 2013

Negro Baseball Leagues

YouTube: Negro Baseball Leagues: Some pics of some of the untold history of African-American Super Stars of another generation. All Natural Super Stars who brought excitement to a game that had none before.

Oct 30 2013

Buck O’Neil Biography

Buck O’Neil Biography: A Brief Biography about Negro League Great Buck O’Neal

Oct 29 2013

St. Louis Historical Baseball Stadium: Stars Park

Via YouTube St. Louis Historical Baseball Stadium: Stars Park: Learn about Stars Park in St. Louis.

Oct 19 2013

Soul of the Game

Via YouTube: Soul of the Game: Soul of the Game is a 1996 made-for-television movie about Negro league baseball. It starred Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige and Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson. The film depicts Paige and Gibson as the pitching and hitting stars, respectively, of the Negro Leagues in …

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Oct 18 2013

NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL – Raymond Aguillard Interview

Via YouTube: NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL – Raymond Aguillard Interview: Negro League Baseball was a professional baseball league during the Jim Crow Era, or Racial Segregation Era in The US with the earliest games being played in 1860 and the last ones in 1965. Negro League Baseball was composed almost entirely of Blacks, though our guest …

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Oct 12 2013

Baseball Hall of Fame – Behind The Plaques: Judy Johnson

Via YouTube: Baseball Hall of Fame – Behind The Plaques: Judy Johnson: In this episode of “Behind The Plaques”, Tim Wiles tells us about Judy Johnson.

Oct 11 2013

Memphis Red Sox and Martin Stadium

Via YouTube Memphis Red Sox and Martin Stadium:

Oct 09 2013

NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL1946 : Reece "Goose" Tatum, Indianapolis Clowns, Kansas City Monarchs

Via YouTube: NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL1946 : Reece “Goose” Tatum, Indianapolis Clowns, Kansas City Monarchs: For half a century African American baseball players had their own leagues. These rare pieces of unedited silent footage of Negro American League players, shot in September 1946 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, focus on the amazing Reece Goose Tatum (1921 – …

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Oct 05 2013

Former Royal Mayberry honored with Buck O’Neill seat

Via YouTube:  Former Royal John Mayberry honored with Buck O’Neill seat.

Oct 04 2013

Satchel Paige and Ted Williams Hall of Fame speech

Via YouTube:  In his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, Ted Williams made a strong plea for inclusion of Negro league stars in the Hall. After the publication of Robert Peterson’s landmark book Only the Ball was White in 1970, the Hall of Fame found itself under renewed pressure to find a way …

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