Posted on 08/16/2020 2:28:34 PM PDT by TBP
This was back in the spring of 1998, and I was in the middle of one of the great afternoons I’ve ever spent. There were two people inside the main hall of the Negro League Museum in Kansas City, Mo., that afternoon, two days before it would open to the general public.
I was one, notebook in hand.
And walking alongside me was John Jordan O’Neil Jr. — better known as Buck. And though his words, as always, filled that notebook front to back by the time he was done sharing his memories, it was the smile attached to his face that stayed with me afterward, that remains with me to this day.
This was his first time walking through the completed museum: seeing the finished displays, walking amid the statues of his contemporaries — Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, Josh Gibson. More than any other man, it had been Buck who’d kept their memories alive when it seemed the Negro Leagues were on the verge of dissolving into the fog of history.
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I would like to go back in time to watch a some Negro League games in person.
My understanding is the way they played the game was fast and with aggressive base running. It must have been something!!!
They always honor the Negro leagues!
Satchel Paige..
Nobody ever knew how old he was when he started in the Majors. But he would have been one of the greats, just for who he was.
“Age is a matter of mind. If you dont mind, it dont matter.”
So the MLB is proud of their SEGREGATION, their virtual enslavement of blacks, in a league that paid starvation wages.
Are they also happy when cops kill black children?
According to Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell “was so fast, he could turn out the lights and be in bed before it was dark.”
I think honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro Leagues is part of their effort to make amends.
“I think honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro Leagues is part of their effort to make amends.”
Perhaps, but think of it this way - if Trump had, in any way, celebrated the Negro League, my comment would have been written about him, word for word.
As a very young child I saw Satchel Paige playing with the KC Monarchs. They were barn-storming, playing semi-pro teams across the mid-west. That was just before he was called up to the majors. He last pitched in the majors in the late 60’s when the owner of the KC A’s, Charlie Findley, heard that Satchel needed to make a last appearance in the majors to qualify for a pension. He was rumored to be in his 60’s but had good stuff.
His autobiography is entitled, “Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever.”
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