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Sep 16, 2026
HamboneHOST
There were a bunch of really interesting ones, like one of the ones that you had to do a 2-6 out, which is catcher to shortstop for my non-baseball people, which is a very odd play, right? It doesn't happen all that much.
HamboneHOST
But they also have the storylines modes, and the last few years they've been doing the Negro League sort of highlights on different players from that time.
HamboneHOST
So basically what I looked... looked up, like, how am I ever going to get a 2.6 out unless I play this for like 100 hours? But they basically set you up for those scenarios within some of the storylines.
HamboneHOST
So, you know, I did maybe there was like a dozen different of the storylines, and I did five or six of them.
Trenae NuriHOST
And I think about the mural over in Parkside, the Philadelphia Stars mural.
Trenae NuriHOST
Philadelphia Stars was a historical Negro League baseball team here in the city.
Trenae NuriHOST
And the building that it is on, the roof and the wall had damage.
Trenae NuriHOST
And so the building partially collapsed.
Kevin KeatingGUEST
Well, yeah, the first book came out in 99.
Kevin KeatingGUEST
That was the Negro Leagues Autograph Guide, which is a compendium on Negro League history and what we considered at the time like the top 100 or so Negro League autographs to collect.
Kevin KeatingGUEST
And, you know, that was kind of an interesting didactic look at that segment of the hobby.
Kevin KeatingGUEST
And then, you know, over the years, I had so many interactions with so many of the greats and actually had very close friendships with a number of guys.
Royce WhiteHOST
My great-grandfather, Lewis White, who I talk about sometimes, was a incredible, uh, baseball player when he was young.
Royce WhiteHOST
This was at a time when the pros didn't pay so well, and as the story goes from Negro league legend Buck O'Neil, uh, the barnstorming, the barnstorming for the Negro Leagues was just as big as the organized stuff and, and they took it very serious.
Royce WhiteHOST
It was a huge part of, uh, uh, Black American culture.
Royce WhiteHOST
And when they came to Minnesota, when they did the barnstorming in Minnesota, they would always come and ask my grandfather to play.
Royce WhiteHOST
That's how good of a baseball player he was.
Royce WhiteHOST
And many of them said that he should've tried to play in the Negro Leagues.
Royce WhiteHOST
At, at the time he had a, a child, my grandfather, who was the oldest of his children, had a, a child early, and his mother told him, "Don't be wasting any time with any baseball.
Royce WhiteHOST
You got a kid to raise." And that just tells you how different things were then versus now.
Ken BentleyGUEST
And when he played on the tour, there were probably 10 or 12 African American members of the tour.
Ken BentleyGUEST
And so he, he talked about how when he was coming up, there was a tour that, um, an African American tour like the Negro Leagues of, of, uh, baseball.
Tim O'BrienHOST
Right.
Ken BentleyGUEST
And so we started with three tournaments back in 2010, and this year we'll have 16 tournaments and- Uh, places that have hold, ha- that have held major tournaments like, uh, Baltusrol, Torrey Pines.
Justin RinaldiGUEST
So I use things like that for projections where I made deductions based off of kind of our best guesses from these players.
Justin RinaldiGUEST
It's not going to be perfect, but it's just kind of using the average performance, how it changed going from Negro League ball to increased competition in Major League Baseball.
Justin RinaldiGUEST
So that's the reason that I didn't put O in my top 100 is just the same reason basically someone like Pop Lloyd wouldn't make it or Smokey Joe Williams players that played before there were the official Negro Leagues.
Justin RinaldiGUEST
Same thing with the Japanese leagues.
Justin RinaldiGUEST
There wasn't a kind of comparison that I could make where I could try to pinpoint to a number for how the league quality changed from the Japanese leagues to Major League Baseball.
Alex MayesHOST
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Alex MayesHOST
Bob Kendrick, who is the head of the Negro League Museum, is part of that group, and they – have confirmed that to honor the Negro League team, the Nashville Stars, that that would be the name of the professional team when and if they come to Nashville.
Alex MayesHOST
So I think that would
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Sunny HostinGUEST
I've been trying to get that story made.
Sunny HostinGUEST
Uh, the Negro League is still, um, uh, they still play games in New Orleans.
Sunny HostinGUEST
There are, uh, politicians that, that drive to New Orleans and, and play in the Negro League.
Sunny HostinGUEST
I've been trying to get that film made.
Sunny HostinGUEST
There are period pieces, one on Roy White, who was a white passing man, um, uh, that worked at the NAACP and would sneak into KKK, uh, meetings and get intel and bring it back to the NAACP.
Karen HunterHOST
Oh, yes.
Karen HunterHOST
We remember the Negro Baseball League.
Karen HunterHOST
Highly successful.
Karen HunterHOST
Highly successful, right? The Negro Baseball League-
Greg CarrHOST
Right
Karen HunterHOST
... highly successful.
Mitch BohnHOST
We were going to talk about the Hank Aaron interview, and I totally spaced that.
Rob AdlerGUEST
So I was in Kansas City as a 24-year-old kid at the Negro League reunion, and nobody... looks like more of a negro leagues reunion fan than me right so i walk in and there's buck o'neill who's in the hall of fame now um ran the negro league three negro leagues at the time or sorry the negro leagues museum at the time and when i walked into that room you could have heard a pin drop and he's like who let the white boy in come over here you little cracker And so I go over and I talk to him and he's like, who do you need? What do you need? You said anybody you need, I will get for you.
Rob AdlerGUEST
I was like, okay.
Rob AdlerGUEST
And I ran across, I gave him like four names and I'm like, and one of them was Hank Aaron.
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