EPISODE · Jun 10, 2021 · 49 MIN
"The Greatest Baseball Player You've Never Heard Of": Bob Kendrick and Jeremy Beer on the Great Oscar Charleston
from Black Diamonds · host 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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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.
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"The Greatest Baseball Player You've Never Heard Of": Bob Kendrick and Jeremy Beer on the Great Oscar Charleston
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