A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy. |
Don't be so hard on him, ... Maybe he's got a young boy of his own at home. |
Don't shed any tears. You think about this: Here I am, the grandson of a slave. And here the whole world was excited about whether I was going into the Hall of Fame or not. We've come a long ways. |
Good arm, line-drive-type hitter, but a good friend of mine. A good friend of mine because he started with the Monarchs in '37 and I got there in '38. |
He was a competitor, |
He was quite a guy. An organizer. And had some of the best ballplayers that ever lived. |
He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudice. There was my father and then there was J. L. Wilkinson. |
He was wonderful and kind, always insisting on gentlemanly behavior and a good suit. |
I've had some success, I really have. But I tell you what, you got to get that education. |
It turned out better actually than I thought it would, you know. This is outstanding. |
It would mean a lot for us to go in together. J. L. Wilkinson was an outstanding human being. He was like a father to me. |
It's just a few of us left, especially the old-timers. The guys after Jackie Robinson, we got quite a few of those left. But the guys before Jackie Robinson, there's very few of us left. |
somewhere in the Northwest. |
That's the way they thought about it and that's the way it is. Don't weep for Buck. Be happy, be thankful. |
The general manager of a baseball team can have lunch with the governor or he might have dinner with the United States president. |