"The Greatest Baseball Player You've Never Heard Of": Bob Kendrick and Jeremy Beer on the Great Oscar Charleston
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.
Black Diamonds · Jeremy Beer, Jimmy Crutchfield, Pedro Sierra, Bob Kendrick, Mamie Johnson, Monte Irvin, Darnea Samuels, Clifford Brown, Gordon Hopkins, Buck O'Neil
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Show Notes
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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
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