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Honest man

The first time I’ve ever heard Addie Joss mentioned. He was a beloved player, great pitcher and died so incredibly young and tragically.

Buck Weaver never took a dime, never agreed to throw the Series, played his ass off and had a great Series. Great tragedy that Landis banned him and never reinstated him. Ty Cobb always said Weaver was the best 3rd baseman he ever saw.

That picture at 7:40 is incredible. Smoky Joe, Cy Young, Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson. 300, 400 and 500 game winners all in a single picture.

this is GREAT !!! Chief Meyers tells it great.

Great interview

Sir, thank you so much for these interviews. You seized such a golden opportunity to interview these legends, and these conversations will live forever. Best wishes from RI.

Incredible conversation. Thanks for posting this.

Why do the pictures never match the players. They are just a variety of players of the time. They ruin the production.

Hall of Famer.

Who's the narrator?

Willie Mays was a good center fielder too.

Sitting here in 2024 listening to a recording of Smoky Joe Wood talk about his career is astounding to me.

What a character.. Reminds me of a few of the old old school pool legends I met and the stories they tell.. Told, unfortunately..

Great interview! So glad you captured Fred’s memories and perspective before it was too late!

History lesson: The notched bat Goose was referring to is still around! It sits in the Hall Of Fame and I am 90% certain it is the bat in his story that he hid in the Senators' locker room. Babe ended that second half of the 1927 season (Babe only began notching his bats for a few reasons: A joke the fellas would laugh about, and to stop guys like Goose from taking his bats and using them) in which he hit 60 home runs, breaking his own record. That bad has 28 notches in it, and there are a few more from that year with notches...one I know has 11 and sold in 2009 for $155,000. Ruth used his bats over periods of YEARS. For reference, Babe started notching his home runs the second half of the 1927 season as far as any teammates could attest to.

When Hans was speaking of the all dirt field that flooded in Pittsburgh, he was referring to Exposition Park on North Shore Way today. There is a plaque there stating the first world series was played at that spot in 1903. Sadly, the stadium that adorned the riverfront back then is now a parking lot.

I wish players today had the amount of excitement and love for the game this man had (as well as thousands of players in that era) because the people like Garrett Cole ruin it for fans by talking smack and bullying a person who loves the game. Cole treats a game like a 9-5 job....

Nice video, although some of the stills were of Chief Bender, not Chief Meyers.

I assumed Lefty O'Doul was a HOF. I listened to Ted Williams speak of him in very high regards. He had some terrific seasons.

The montage is to distracting, I'm naming players instead of listening to the story

these interviews are so wonderful to hear!!!!

That pebbles from his basement story is ABSOLUTELY CLUTCH! Hilarious and thanks to Lawrence Ritter we are given the treasure of Audio proof!! Thanks Lawrence

Absolutely AMAZING story on how determined Lawrence was to find Crawford. I have the audio book and listen to it often as it's an awesome piece of history, yea you can read the book but to hear their voices is priceless

what an asshole that guy was. A person with the talents of a professional pitcher who throws a baseball with the intention of hitting another man in the head is a coward and a piece of shit.

This is part of an audio book called " The glory of their times" by Laurence Ritter, Many other audio clips including Rube Marquard. Look it up as it's an amazing listen.

Native-Americans were allowed to play in major league baseball, but black players were banned. Whites really hated black people.

What would lefty think of San Francisco as it is now?

why would you put a loser like Carlton Fisk on the same video with one of the greatest players of all time?

Ayye glad to see you still at it man! :) keep at it bro i know you'll have a 1000 subs in no time. also i had a griffey game for the snes it was badass xD

Nice pickup , hard to go wrong with a t206 Lajoie. Congratulations 🎊

Fisk was genuinely one the biggest tools in MLB. Overrated and a whiner.

Thank you Boston. I really enjoyed watching Fisk in Chicago.

Bob Stanley sucks

One of the least remembered Hall of Famers. A whale of a player who laboured in the shadow of Ruth, Gehrig, Grove and all those other greats of the 1920s and 1930s.

that man said, what locker rooms?" haha tells you right there that we have been separated from the world our great-grandparents lived in. imagine ball players doing all this now.. it just blows my mind on our different this world is now. like leaving there fielding gloves on the field... thats just such a holdy type of baseball.. gotta love it man.

Words that will never be said again, "I never saw a big league game until I broke into the big leagues"

I could listen to him for hours, along with Satchel and Buck O'Neil.

He was friends with my grandfather. They both loved fishing in the Greenwich area (Bayside) where my grandparents and my parents lived. Never met him ,i was about 6 when he passed but plenty of locals have stories of interactions with him. Still hear mentions of him from time to time on broadcasts of tigers or nationals vs phillies games when theres records involved.

John Madden Football Different spellings, same meaning.

This was long before he joined The Monkees.

Awesome interview, thank you

Mollycoddle. Now there's a word you don't here every day.

A brilliant player and a great athlete.

The 1962 Dodgers was a fun team. Excellent pitching plus hitting which could beat you a number of ways. Too bad Koufax had the injury on his index finger that year which kept them from the pennant.

The story of scoring after the bluff reminds me of Ty Cobb who came up with a lot of ways to win. Both incredibly smart. I would take Willie's power and defense though Cobb could have hit more for power if he wanted to after the dead ball era. Cobb's .366 and 897 stolen bases lead Willie's .301 and 339. And of course, Ty was a difficult personality while Mays is not.

This was really great. I can't imagine modern players giving an interview like this. I like the story where he tried to get kicked out of the game in 1928 to keep the batting title. That's classic. It's not the same, but it does remind me of when Ted Williams played both games of the double header at the end of 1941 instead of protecting his .400 average, going 6 for 8 and ending up at .406.

Love the stories of Germany Schaefer.

This is really good. Glad he mentioned how good Tris was in center. A lot of people don't know about Tris. I would have liked to have gotten his opinion about Mays though.

0:07. Born 1886, not 1889.