Effectively Wild Episode 1560: Unearthing Negro Leagues History by Ben Lindbergh July 3, 2020 Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the difficulties of disclosing or obscuring the identities of players who hit the injured list after contracting COVID-19, dissect a few new analogies from Scott Boras’s brain, and discuss resuming their season preview series, then (35:47) conclude their week-long celebration of the Negro Leagues by bringing on esteemed Negro Leagues historian Larry Lester to discuss the origins of scholarship about the Negro Leagues, co-founding the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, collecting Negro Leagues artifacts, his relationships with former Negro League players, helping select the Negro Leaguers inducted into the hall of Fame, his efforts to find Negro Leagues box scores and the status of the project to complete the statistical record, the greatest writers who covered the Negro Leagues, his favorite unsung players, the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project, how he researched Negro Leagues uniforms and helped obtain pensions for Negro Leaguers, and more (plus a postscript about reading recommendations). Audio intro: Bob Dylan, "One More Cup of Coffee" Audio interstitial: Natural Resource, "Negro Baseball League" Audio outro: Blind Lemon Jefferson, "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" Link to stream Stove League on Viki Link to Lindsey on COVID and the IL Link to Larry Lester’s website Link to NLBM website Link to Only the Ball Was White Link to Larry’s Henry Chadwick Award page Link to Larry’s Bob Davids Award page Link to Hall of Fame Screening Committee press release Link to Grave Marker Project page Link to Jerry Malloy Conference info Link to info on Cannonball Dick Redding Link to Seamheads Negro Leagues Database Link to SABR’s guide to researching the Negro Leagues Link to Rob Arthur on systemic racism in baseball Link to Rob on racial bias in player promotions Link to Shakeia Taylor on Effa Manley Link to Shakeia on the Negro Leagues centennial Link to Shakeia on the Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com https://media.blubrry.com/effectively_wild/p/cdn.fangraphs.com/audio/EffectivelyWildEpisode1560.mp3Podcast (effectively-wild): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS