"The Greatest Baseball Player You've Never Heard Of": Bob Kendrick and Jeremy Beer on the Great Oscar Charleston
Podcast |
Black Diamonds
Publisher |
SiriusXM
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Baseball
Documentary
History
Society & Culture
Sports
Publication Date |
Jun 10, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:49:13

Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nlbmprez

Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - https://nlbm.com

Gordon Hopkins audio is courtesy of the University of Baltimore Oral Histories -https://archive.org/details/ubaltaudio

Jimmy Crutchfield audio originally recorded with Stephen Banker

To learn more about the great Oscar Charleston, check out the award-winning Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player by Jeremy Beer - https://amzn.to/3iusnWY

Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter/X - @nlbmprez

 

Follow Bob Kendrick on Instagram - @nlbmprez

 

To support the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and preserve the legacy of Buck O'Neil, please visit ThanksAMillionBuck.com

 

Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - NLBM.com

 

See and Support the Dream of the NEW Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Pitch for the Future

Bob Kendrick discusses the life and career of the great Oscar Charleston, from why he's referred to as "Willie Mays before we ever knew Willie Mays" (03:45), and why experts and peers alike call him one of the five greatest players to ever lace up spikes (07:16), to how he once took on the Cuban military in a fistfight (08:00), and why he was simultaneously one of the most feared and most respected managers in Negro Leagues history (09:33). Then biographer Jeremy Beer stops by (15:47) to dive deeper into the man, the myth, and the legend of Oscar Charleston.

Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nlbmprez

Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - https://nlbm.com

Gordon Hopkins audio is courtesy of the University of Baltimore Oral Histories -https://archive.org/details/ubaltaudio

Jimmy Crutchfield audio originally recorded with Stephen Banker

To learn more about the great Oscar Charleston, check out the award-winning Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player by Jeremy Beer - https://amzn.to/3iusnWY

Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter/X - @nlbmprez

 

Follow Bob Kendrick on Instagram - @nlbmprez

 

To support the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and preserve the legacy of Buck O'Neil, please visit ThanksAMillionBuck.com

 

Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - NLBM.com

 

See and Support the Dream of the NEW Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Pitch for the Future

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