whites call him josh gibson, the black babe ruth.black folks say, no, babe ruth is the white josh gibson. there was a game in forbes field, pittsburgh, who was playing for the home state grays against the chicago american giants. they were doing a series. he hit a home run. center field home run that when it cleared center field, it was still going up. and up. and people watched it fade away out in the distance. they foregood to even applaud as he's going around the bases. they're asking themselves what planet is this guy from? as the story goes, three days later they were finishing up the series in chicago. this time -- both teams were on the field, you know, doing some exercises. one of the chicago american giants players heard a fan yell out, there's a ball coming. he looked up. a ball was falling. he caught the ball. what was going on? there was an umpire standing next to him. he's looking. they're looking at each other. what? and the umpire looks around and he sees gosh gibson over there talking to someone. looks at the ball. lo

did they see josh gibson swing or see satchel throw his stuff or you know how bad it feels when yourbest is not good enough. when clouds roll in across the sky to hide the brightest moon you'll find some stars don't shine some folks were born too soon. god bless you jackie robinson and willie mays and all you wore our numbers on your backs when you played big league ball and every time you hit one out slid or laid one down you carried us from that old bus to the halls of coopers. town. my name is drake, my name is newt allen, but you won't remember that. i'm just one more along the score who played with ball and bat. but when you seek out heroes and praise the great pastime, remember those old brown face pros, the stars that did not shine. [ applause ] so with that conclusion what i would like to do is open it up for any questions you might have related to the negro leagues and i want to thank everybody for coming, hitting junction city tomorrow and believe it or not sunday i'm in salisbury, missouri. so i'm jumping across the state and just having a ball talking baseball and talking