buck o'neill used to tell me the story that he always carried a 33 ounce and a 34 ounce bat. d buck said that he was e rooming with him and he said he went out and he came back and turkey was in there and he had y the 34 w and the 33 ounce bat a3 he carried his bats. a he slept with his bats. the room.to t and thehe monarchs had lost a go that day, and he had used the 33 bat, and it went about this far from going over the fence, and buck said he was talking to his bat it's and he was talking to e the 33.33. he said i used you today and i didn't hit the home run. o he said if i used you, i would have hit the home run and we would have won the game. turkey when they interviewed him years later they said how many home runs did you hit?em he said i have no idea because i only counted them when they wot the ball game.laye he's ar. great player and he's that team.urse, you have bullet rogan in his hi final season.'s on and you haveth another guy name willard "home run" brown. willard brown was playing brown shortstop on this -- he's playing third base in this ly h' particular game b

john buck o'neil.n 1938 he was playing his first season with the kansas city monarch.la another interesting thing about this is that baseball players go through different pays t. you will notice these guys have no facial hair.at was that was the face that they were in at that particular time. clean cut kind of look. this is a very young buck o'neie by the way. the firstha african-american toe come into the league playing atl with a mustache was satchel paig page. will you find that he has a on mustache in the 1930s which is p kind ofa rare but once again satchel page was kind of rare himself. in going around and giving talks on the negro leagues and trying to go back to as many cities as i can and talk about various tht games that they played in cities, occasionally you hear something that really summarize the experience. i heard it and i said that's a great song but you know what, i'm a halfy decent poet.. i adopted it. it goes something like this. my name is bullet rogue an. my name is turkey sterns.

buck o'neil used to tell the story that he always carriedal 33 ounce and a 34-ounce bat. buck said he was rooming with him, and he said that he nt went out and came back, and ba turkey was in there.turkey and he had the w 34 and 3 33-ouy bats, highway slepts wie slept room. he used the 33 bat t andhi f it this far from the fence. he was talking to his bats. he talked to the 33 and said, " used you today and hit a home 4 run. if i used you," to the 34 bat, "i would have hit that home run, and we would have won the game." when they interviewed him laterw they said, "how many home runs did you hit?" he said, "i have no idea," he wn said, "because i only counted them when i won the ball game." he was on a great team. and of course, billy rogan, in his final season. he's on the team. and you have another guy named willard "home run" brown. willard brown was playing d shortstop on this particular --g actually, he's playing third base in this particular game.g but he played a lot of he shortstop. he endeded up being a great player, went to the major leagues. most people know abo

turke my name is buck o'neil. but my age is way beyond. i spent my prime in baseball shoes, but my sporting days are. gone. m i'm one more forgotten face among the black faced teams.hat an old dark horse they came in t the negro leagues. d i worked the fields in tennesse but dreamed of better days. i left the now pick and bay to n join the homestead grays. all summer long we played the states and headed south for fall. through rain and dust woe rode the bus so we could play baseball. we played so for love, and we played for pride. ma and we said and made much more. the hotelmo bugs, the roads whe crowds don't roar. the city life came with the lifs i chose, but we made due and came through because dammit we m were pros.n we played in the shadow of the s babe, lou gehrig, and the rest.g thenstad behind that big leagued fence while they were called the best. but we played them well, and we gave them hell with every hit tm and pitch. then stayed behind that colored line and watched those guys gete rich. but did they see josh gibson's ri swing