i remember as a 9yo boy 23 years ago asking my mother of all people why Josh Gibson never played for the Baltimore Orioles 😂 i didn’t know about segregation growing up a white kid in Bmore because my parents raised me to always be friendly to everyone and we’re all equal and should be treated as such. PS my mom didn’t know much about baseball LOL
My Grandpa told me that baseball was huge in the south among Black folks. He said after work and on Sundays they played. They all dreamed of playing in The Negro League.
THE GREATEST PLAYERS MY GRAND FATHER PLAYED IN. THE NEGRO LEAGUE. GOD BLESS HIM. .BUT MY FAVORITE PLAYER WAS TED DOUBLE DUTY RADCLIFF .THE WAY HE TALK AN PLAY WITH PRIDE AN CONVICTION. RIP D.D. DOUBLE DUTY.
Rube Foster’s motto was “We will show you that we can play.” At 34:00, there is a discussion of Jackie Robinson. Monte Irvin was his first choice. Effa Manley put up roadblocks to prevent it. This not just baseball history, this is American history.
Have read a lot about the negro leagues. This will be my first documentary. Excited as mlb the show will be introducing these great ball players and I cannot wait to play as them.
There is a new documentary about the Negro Leagues. It’s called simply “The League.” Just opened in theaters , but available on streaming platforms including Prime.
Going to visit the Negro leagues museum in May. I love baseball and it’s history. I saw the satchel Paige movie as a kid. He has been a legend to me since then.
Though hearing about the history of segregation saddens me, I would have loved to see a few games with the Monarchs, Grays, Crawfords or Saint Louis Stars.
I wish kids today could realize the history of the Negro Leagues. Growing up white in the fifties, it made me feel a little bit better about our country that black players could show how good they were when given a chance. It was hard for me to realize that it hadn't been that way very long and that so much was still to be done, and still is.
Besides the fact that segregation is morally wrong, it also hurt baseball. If the leagues were integrated, they would have been some amazing teams made up of all races since the talent pool would have been bigger.
Fabulous! Thank you for making this available for educational purposes! Can’t wait to show this to my students in tandem with reading August Williams’ “Fences.”
Moral of the story, we didn't fight hard to keep our own sports leagues, instead we fought hard to make everyone else money, and still beg for opportunities
@@loydkline That happened, either Real Sports or HBO had a special on this subject. The white players lost most of the games but Ruth did get his hits. There was a man who did boxscores for many of these games.
@TheBatugan77 Wrong for you just means you have a lack of awareness. Babe Ruth did barnstorm across the country trying to bring baseball to the wider public. This is widely known. The best white major leaguers played against the best Negro league teams. The white major leaguers were losing those games handily. There was a special on cable TV that covered this. The commissioner at the time Kennesaw Mountain Landis put a stop to Babe Ruth's barnstorming because it was going to become too widely known that black players were not only equal to but superior in many cases to the current white players. His main goal was that as long as he was commissioner no black man would play in the major leagues. Jackie Robinson only came in 1947 after Landis passed away. You can write wrong all you want but these events have already taken place.
In my Field of Dreams when I pass on from this earth I hope God has set up for me a chance to see all the baseball games of the world from the past. All the old MLB games Negro League games Barnstorming games and baseball from the past around the world Little League games all of it thousands if not millions of games at my disposal and I can sit with my parents and all my family members and watch all the baseball I want from the past and never be tired of it and sit back and watch all these games would be my Field of Dreams and I could die a happy man
I personally should go see the negro league museum whether or not he or she likes baseball; it doesn’t disappoint. The jazz museum nearby is also really good. And you can make a day of it with real American bbq at Arthur Bryant’s. Great, now I’m hungry too. Thanks a lot!
When I was about 9 years ago (this was 1972) I learned about the Negro Leagues and Satchel, Josh and many of the others. That is when they started inducting them into the Hall of Fame. I was so upset that they never let these greats play in their daya - and Satchel only got in when he was 40 years old. It would make a great movie to show many of the greats of the Negro leagues come to life and play the great white player brought together by the wishes of a young boy seeking to right the wrongs of history with a bittersweet ending.
I think they were afraid of negro league baseballer especially especially satchel paige:: major leagur baseball wiuld have made alot more money; nba did the same thing with black basketball player harlem globetroller stuff etc etc
I remember seeing Jackie Robinson play his first year. I wonder how many games Satchell Paige would have won if he would have started playing in the major leagues when he was young. I remember when he played for the St. Louis Browns.
Myself I'll never treat blacks any different my daughter is half black so to me color don't matter God made us all the same an we should say thank u an GOD bless Jackie Robinson for everything he's done for MLB
In all mercy and compassion, may they all be rewarded GREATLY in the next "Real" big league in which we all are equal, in which all souls are the same color but may those rewards be greater than others as per their suffering.
My father played against Satchel Paige and others back in the day E.I. Industrial leugues . He always said that it was a travesty that they were shut out of Professional Baseball for so long. Josh Gibson and so many other that never got a chance to play. I'm also proud of him fighting for civil rights in the 1960' as a Democtratic Politicain That Marched with Dr King. My son has his letter from The Cincinatti Red's wanting to offer him a chance to play but at that time he had three kid's and baseball didn't pay much.
There's a reason for everything Ted Williams spoke up for the black man because he himself had suppressed the fact that he was Mexican and that was his way of shoutng out and imprecise for all men every Man has a path
Nobody could tell me blacks were inferior when I was a boy. I'd just point to Joe Morgan, my hero as a kid. Growing up in the 70s and living about a half hour away from Riverfront Stadium I think watching the Big Red Machine with it's white American stars - Bench , Rose , Gullet , Black American stars - Morgan, Foster , Griffey , Latino Stars - Concepcion , Perez, Geronimo. It was a great way for a kid to see that it didn't make any difference what a person's ancestry was . Everyone has something to offer if they are given a chance. Not only could they all contribute but they were a TEAM . That team was a perfect example of that fact and a lot of kids dismissed the idea of racial division because they watched that Reds team and other MLB teams.
growing up, I did not know of the Negro League, All I know was from my GF....He played in the mill leagues. He said the blacks(using the slang word) where better than any white players. So, One of my 1st Heroes as a kid was Willie Horton(Detroit Tigers). I was a diehard Tiger fan!!!!
Great video. America was cheated by having a racist Baseball Commissioner. Everybody must forever wonder what if all those great black players were allowed to play MLB. Such a shame.
My father was a white player after WWll to 1960 he was a hard hitting minor leaguer Dick Wilson he owned the calif league when. He got his chance with pittsburg he refused to sign the major league conyract as Branch Rickey offered him the major league minimum of 750 month when he had been making 1000 at Modesto Branch Rickey told him in 51 he had had the best year in pro ball 40 hrs 55 doubles 155 rbis plus .371 ok He found out later that Rickey blocked him after that ok looking at the photos the picture of the guy who was standing next to the player who started forming the leagues was an Afro Cuban named Alex Pompez later on he became a scout for the giants he was very instrumental in signing many latino players my dad also bec ame a scout for the giants during spring training he only wanted his players to work with my father esoecially the hitting Alex had been a numbers king pin in Harlem during the days of Bumpy Johnson he butted heads severly with Dutch Schultz but Lucky Luciano took care of that in 1952 my dad played in a game with the Hollywood Stars vs American league all stars 2 memories of Satchel Paige you could have put a glass of water on his head and never spilled a drop his low fast ball looked like it disapoeared in 1958 my dad had had his shot but was still playing he was a playing mgr in the cubs organization they had an open spring training majors vs minors my father was the leading hitter all thru spring training against all pitchers during that time he Became friendly with Buck Oneil Buck asked mt dad to work with a young prospect at first base Billy Williams Williams went on to be an outfielder later Tommy Lasorda asked my dad to work with a young prospect Steve Garvey on how to make the throw from 3rd to first Garvey went to the bigs as a first baseman in 1956 my dad was a playing mgr in cal league had a young pitcher Art Williams later on became the first black umpire in the national league my dad was influential in getting him started its on your phone
Thank the Democratic Party for Jim Crowe, separate but equal, even the KKK, which the Democrats formed to keep black Republicans from holding office, after reconstruction. I only say this because somehow people seem to have forgotten this. Even forgiven it. Watching this fills me with many emotions. Lots of anger and sadness because of the unfairness of it all.
These great men had To Face some of the worst adversity in its day and still came up on top, even though white Americans tried to keep from this from happening,especially in the segregated south but they still prevail. Just Tried to imagine what Jackie Robinson had to go through, because he was the first. Unreal.
It was Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis back then! Best two Black World Boxing Champs of all time, Undisputed! Before the GOAT, Ali! Now, it's Bud! What up, Money Mayweather!? No, let me stop! Lmao!
I am seeing a theme that is very appalling. Afro-Americans build a business that was more than successful being intruded upon or downright destroyed due to hatred. I am not talking about those riots that destroyed much of the infrastructure of Black Business' through outside influence, hate filled influence. I am talking about thriving business or communities destroyed through hatred. Afro-Americans have nothing to hang their heads about when such is the reason that business or communities were destroyed. If you truly know Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah Tzav'ot Rebuke the hatred because Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah Tzav'ot is Truth. Elohim is not to be Mocked. Shalom, L'hllel, Amen.
MY FATHER, BORN 1923, BROOKLYN, DODGER FAN,HATED YANKS,GIANTS , SO WHEN DODGERS OUT OF TOWN, WENT TO SEE BLACK YANKS, ON SUNDAYS, SEEN OVER A 100 GAMES
My Dad played for the Indianapolis Clowns. His name was Floyd Humphrey.
Lucky , wow
Yes, that’s him
i hear the games were a lot of junk talking. I wish I could see some
i remember as a 9yo boy 23 years ago asking my mother of all people why Josh Gibson never played for the Baltimore Orioles 😂 i didn’t know about segregation growing up a white kid in Bmore because my parents raised me to always be friendly to everyone and we’re all equal and should be treated as such. PS my mom didn’t know much about baseball LOL
That's 🔥🔥
My Grandpa told me that baseball was huge in the south among Black folks. He said after work and on Sundays they played. They all dreamed of playing in The Negro League.
We as the people especially those of us of color who absolutely love the sport of Baseball THANK YOU for this awesome Historical Video 👌🏿✊🏿⚾🙏🏿
The G.O.A.T's. Baseball wouldnt be baseball without these legends. Watching those men play today would be a dream.
THE GREATEST PLAYERS MY GRAND FATHER PLAYED IN. THE NEGRO LEAGUE. GOD BLESS HIM. .BUT MY FAVORITE PLAYER WAS TED DOUBLE DUTY RADCLIFF .THE WAY HE TALK AN PLAY WITH PRIDE AN CONVICTION. RIP D.D. DOUBLE DUTY.
Rube Foster’s motto was “We will show you that we can play.” At 34:00, there is a discussion of Jackie Robinson. Monte Irvin was his first choice. Effa Manley put up roadblocks to prevent it. This not just baseball history, this is American history.
Have read a lot about the negro leagues. This will be my first documentary. Excited as mlb the show will be introducing these great ball players and I cannot wait to play as them.
There is a new documentary about the Negro Leagues. It’s called simply “The League.” Just opened in theaters , but available on streaming platforms including Prime.
Going to visit the Negro leagues museum in May. I love baseball and it’s history. I saw the satchel Paige movie as a kid. He has been a legend to me since then.
Wonderful documentary, thanks baseball, and thanks to the Negro leagues.
Though hearing about the history of segregation saddens me, I would have loved to see a few games with the Monarchs, Grays, Crawfords or Saint Louis Stars.
@@smithsthoughts I’m
They should've major league baseball ⚾️ vs negro league baseball series seven games series ;; 1920s / 1930s
Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., Eddie Murray, Ricky Henderson, Tony Gwynn, frank Thomas were gods when I was a kid
TY COBB, MIKE TROUT, NOLAN RYAN, MICKEY MANTL, TED WILLIAMS WADE BOGGS ARE GODS❤
@@giffysstiffy887Are you ready? I can troll with the best.
@@giffysstiffy887Your response pales in comparison. Kinda speaks to the talent gap between the negro league and mlb🤷♂️...speaks to your racism too
This was awesome! I love my people!, we are great!💪🏿✊🏿🤼⚾️
Yes you are. We are all God’s children. No one is inferior and no one is superior.
@@duanedorman6134 indigenous people are the God your talking about.....this is the Age of Aquarius all that nonsense talk is over
@@Da19thbronzemenHe speaks truth what is your issue with what hes saying..
Your people are no greater than anyone else my friend..We are all just people..
I wish kids today could realize the history of the Negro Leagues. Growing up white in the fifties, it made me feel a little bit better about our country that black players could show how good they were when given a chance. It was hard for me to realize that it hadn't been that way very long and that so much was still to be done, and still is.
One of the best 1 hour documentaries ever
Games bring people together. It's like the saying a family that plays together stays together.
Besides the fact that segregation is morally wrong, it also hurt baseball. If the leagues were integrated, they would have been some amazing teams made up of all races since the talent pool would have been bigger.
Tom Yawkey & Mike Pinky Higgins doomed the RedSox to mediocrity at the price for their biogtry.
Incredible DVD, thanks for sharing!!!
Fabulous! Thank you for making this available for educational purposes! Can’t wait to show this to my students in tandem with reading August Williams’ “Fences.”
Awesome documentary! Thanks for sharing
Great documentary!!
Well done!!
This is a wonderful Documentary
Moral of the story, we didn't fight hard to keep our own sports leagues, instead we fought hard to make everyone else money, and still beg for opportunities
Who's we? You French?
EED-yut.
So... Y'all are shiddy businessmen? That your testimony, clownboy?
We sure did .
And it still continues in different forms today .
Stay safe
Yup
Sad but true . We always wanted to be included when we were the best!!
The NLBM is a must see for every fan. And it's next to the Jazz Museum! 18th and Vine!
My grandfather always said all the MLB records before blacks could play should have asterisks by them!✅
Babe Ruth would've ❤️ to play negro league baseball players: vs babe Ruth all star baseball ⚾️ team
ABSOLUTELY !
@@loydkline That happened, either Real Sports or HBO had a special on this subject. The white players lost most of the games but Ruth did get his hits. There was a man who did boxscores for many of these games.
@@gregoryphillips3969
Wrong.
@TheBatugan77 Wrong for you just means you have a lack of awareness. Babe Ruth did barnstorm across the country trying to bring baseball to the wider public. This is widely known. The best white major leaguers played against the best Negro league teams. The white major leaguers were losing those games handily. There was a special on cable TV that covered this. The commissioner at the time Kennesaw Mountain Landis put a stop to Babe Ruth's barnstorming because it was going to become too widely known that black players were not only equal to but superior in many cases to the current white players.
His main goal was that as long as he was commissioner no black man would play in the major leagues. Jackie Robinson only came in 1947 after Landis passed away.
You can write wrong all you want but these events have already taken place.
Wonderful documentary
My uncle Tony Lloyd played for the 59 Birmingham Black Barons Championship team.
Salute to the legand !!
Wow
In my Field of Dreams when I pass on from this earth I hope God has set up for me a chance to see all the baseball games of the world from the past. All the old MLB games Negro League games Barnstorming games and baseball from the past around the world Little League games all of it thousands if not millions of games at my disposal and I can sit with my parents and all my family members and watch all the baseball I want from the past and never be tired of it and sit back and watch all these games would be my Field of Dreams and I could die a happy man
Awesome documentary 👍
I personally should go see the negro league museum whether or not he or she likes baseball; it doesn’t disappoint. The jazz museum nearby is also really good. And you can make a day of it with real American bbq at Arthur Bryant’s. Great, now I’m hungry too. Thanks a lot!
Been to all three, chief. You're spot on!
When I was about 9 years ago (this was 1972) I learned about the Negro Leagues and Satchel, Josh and many of the others. That is when they started inducting them into the Hall of Fame. I was so upset that they never let these greats play in their daya - and Satchel only got in when he was 40 years old. It would make a great movie to show many of the greats of the Negro leagues come to life and play the great white player brought together by the wishes of a young boy seeking to right the wrongs of history with a bittersweet ending.
I think they were afraid of negro league baseballer especially especially satchel paige:: major leagur baseball wiuld have made alot more money; nba did the same thing with black basketball player harlem globetroller stuff etc etc
Trying to slip a fastball by Buck like trying to slip a sunrise by a rooster 👍⚾️
I remember seeing Jackie Robinson play his first year. I wonder how many games Satchell Paige would have won if he would have started playing in the major leagues when he was young. I remember when he played for the St. Louis Browns.
What Paige did as a 42-year old rookie with the Cleveland Indians (!) was astounding.
Moral of the story black people need to support black businesses. Stop thinking we didn't have anything
"white people need to support white business" sounds kind of racist, no?
Thank you.. segregation was not a consequence
Myself I'll never treat blacks any different my daughter is half black so to me color don't matter God made us all the same an we should say thank u an GOD bless Jackie Robinson for everything he's done for MLB
In all mercy and compassion, may they all be rewarded GREATLY in the next "Real" big league in which we all are equal, in which all souls are the same color but may those rewards be greater than others as per their suffering.
Riley Stewart my uncle he was a pitcher from Benton Louisiana
www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=stewar000ril
Salute to the Legand
Rick wood fields in Birmingham,Alabama
MLB The Show 24 has an impressive recreation of Rickwood Field available to play at
My father played against Satchel Paige and others back in the day E.I. Industrial leugues . He always said that it was a travesty that they were shut out of Professional Baseball for so long. Josh Gibson and so many other that never got a chance to play. I'm also proud of him fighting for civil rights in the 1960' as a Democtratic Politicain That Marched with Dr King. My son has his letter from The Cincinatti Red's wanting to offer him a chance to play but at that time he had three kid's and baseball didn't pay much.
Thank you ❤
Bobby vales
just wow
Very interesting!
There's a reason for everything Ted Williams spoke up for the black man because he himself had suppressed the fact that he was Mexican and that was his way of shoutng out and imprecise for all men every Man has a path
Ted didn't try to suppress anything.
@@TheBatugan77why was he sent to war despite having a family?
Moses Fleetwood Walker played only 45 games in the majors.
Did he play with Hank Aaron?
Nobody could tell me blacks were inferior when I was a boy. I'd just point to Joe Morgan, my hero as a kid. Growing up in the 70s and living about a half hour away from Riverfront Stadium I think watching the Big Red Machine with it's white American stars - Bench , Rose , Gullet , Black American stars - Morgan, Foster , Griffey , Latino Stars - Concepcion , Perez, Geronimo. It was a great way for a kid to see that it didn't make any difference what a person's ancestry was . Everyone has something to offer if they are given a chance. Not only could they all contribute but they were a TEAM . That team was a perfect example of that fact and a lot of kids dismissed the idea of racial division because they watched that Reds team and other MLB teams.
I watched Cool Papa Bell go into the Hall of Fame in 1974. Great day.
growing up, I did not know of the Negro League, All I know was from my GF....He played in the mill leagues. He said the blacks(using the slang word) where better than any white players. So, One of my 1st Heroes as a kid was Willie Horton(Detroit Tigers). I was a diehard Tiger fan!!!!
Great video. America was cheated by having a racist Baseball Commissioner. Everybody must forever wonder what if all those great black players were allowed to play MLB. Such a shame.
No, why give our talent to someone else, when we would have continued to capitalize what we had??
⚾️
My father was a white player after WWll to 1960 he was a hard hitting minor leaguer Dick Wilson he owned the calif league when. He got his chance with pittsburg he refused to sign the major league conyract as Branch Rickey offered him the major league minimum of 750 month when he had been making 1000 at Modesto Branch Rickey told him in 51 he had had the best year in pro ball 40 hrs 55 doubles 155 rbis plus .371 ok He found out later that Rickey blocked him after that ok looking at the photos the picture of the guy who was standing next to the player who started forming the leagues was an Afro Cuban named Alex Pompez later on he became a scout for the giants he was very instrumental in signing many latino players my dad also bec ame a scout for the giants during spring training he only wanted his players to work with my father esoecially the hitting Alex had been a numbers king pin in Harlem during the days of Bumpy Johnson he butted heads severly with Dutch Schultz but Lucky Luciano took care of that in 1952 my dad played in a game with the Hollywood Stars vs American league all stars 2 memories of Satchel Paige you could have put a glass of water on his head and never spilled a drop his low fast ball looked like it disapoeared in 1958 my dad had had his shot but was still playing he was a playing mgr in the cubs organization they had an open spring training majors vs minors my father was the leading hitter all thru spring training against all pitchers during that time he Became friendly with Buck Oneil Buck asked mt dad to work with a young prospect at first base Billy Williams Williams went on to be an outfielder later Tommy Lasorda asked my dad to work with a young prospect Steve Garvey on how to make the throw from 3rd to first Garvey went to the bigs as a first baseman in 1956 my dad was a playing mgr in cal league had a young pitcher Art Williams later on became the first black umpire in the national league my dad was influential in getting him started its on your phone
Even the Olympics were ahead of MLB by including Black people like
Jesse Owens and Mack Robinson.
Thank the Democratic Party for Jim Crowe, separate but equal, even the KKK, which the Democrats formed to keep black Republicans from holding office, after reconstruction. I only say this because somehow people seem to have forgotten this. Even forgiven it. Watching this fills me with many emotions. Lots of anger and sadness because of the unfairness of it all.
Lot of the players who went to
The Mexican League got black balled from joining the Majors. Effa Manley made sure of that.
I wanted to be just like em❤❤❤❤
These great men had To Face some of the worst adversity in its day and still came up on top, even though white Americans tried to keep from this from happening,especially in the segregated south but they still prevail. Just Tried to imagine what Jackie Robinson had to go through, because he was the first. Unreal.
🙌🏽
Folks not in the know talk about the 27 YANKEES, I talk about the 31 GRAYS.
It feels like integration was more an anticompetitive move on the part of MLB; steal their stars and the rival leagues will fold.
Nobody stole anything.
Cut the crap.
@@TheBatugan77 MLB poached the top players. That's inarguable. Leagues rise and fall on the quality of their stars.
Eye roll
This would make a great movie problem is Hollywood lies too much
Satchel Page was the GOAT
To get at u
I heard there was a lot of trash talking. A lot of joking. I wish I could see some of those games.
pride d d d d e (sound effect)
The best fighters in the ring were from the US back then!
Foundational Black Americans have been thru so much. I am forever ur ally! 😢✊🏿🇺🇸B1
It was Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis back then! Best two Black World Boxing Champs of all time, Undisputed! Before the GOAT, Ali! Now, it's Bud! What up, Money Mayweather!? No, let me stop! Lmao!
Those black players should have tried to build a league they had complete control and ownership of.
Thank you, I completely agree
Damn that colorism shit was in sports
The NBL revolutionized the game in the service during WW2! Stop the cap! You don't know nothing about baseball!!!
I am seeing a theme that is very appalling. Afro-Americans build a business that was more than successful being intruded upon or downright destroyed due to hatred. I am not talking about those riots that destroyed much of the infrastructure of Black Business' through outside influence, hate filled influence. I am talking about thriving business or communities destroyed through hatred. Afro-Americans have nothing to hang their heads about when such is the reason that business or communities were destroyed.
If you truly know Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah Tzav'ot Rebuke the hatred because Adonai Elohim Yeshua HaMessiah Tzav'ot is Truth. Elohim is not to be Mocked. Shalom, L'hllel, Amen.
Baseball is still a racist sport so is football and cricket and soccer
MY FATHER, BORN 1923, BROOKLYN, DODGER FAN,HATED YANKS,GIANTS , SO WHEN DODGERS OUT OF TOWN, WENT TO SEE BLACK YANKS, ON SUNDAYS, SEEN OVER A 100 GAMES
Ted Double Duty Radcliffe.
He'd pitch one game, catch the next.
No mention of Turkey Stearnes. . . wth.
Why would the narrators refer to these men as african American the term wasn't even in existence back then .
Better than what we were called in those times
@@frankwright3773 Thank you, Frank.
@@frankwright3773 the question is not what they called you what did w call ourselves....smfh!!!!!! Broken genocided souls
Actually you're right..but I think you know why they continued to reclassify us
🥷 read and Run!! 😮smh