Oct 19 2013
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 …
Oct 18 2013
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 …
Oct 17 2013
Via YouTube: Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2010 Induction Willie Wells:
Oct 12 2013
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 09 2013
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 – …
Oct 06 2013
Jim Riley, a former president of the Society for American Baseball Research, uncovers some of the sport’s lost traditions and current vestiges
Oct 05 2013
Via YouTube: Former Royal John Mayberry honored with Buck O’Neill seat.
Oct 04 2013
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 …
Oct 02 2013
Via YouTube: The Negro Leagues: Baseball, America, and Segregation: A traveling exhibit exploring the history of Negro Leagues Baseball came to Bucknell University in October of 2011, kicking off a series of events exploring America’s pastime during the era of segregation.