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Baseball edition: Roy Wood Jr. on 'Road to Rickwood'; baseball integration in the Carolinas; minor league pitcher Devin Sweet
Manage episode 426593119 series 3524329
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. takes a break from stand up to sit down with historians and former Negro League players in the new NPR podcast "Road to Rickwood."
Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.
Minor league pitcher Devin Sweet recently had a brush with the majors at a time when only six percent of Major League Baseball players are Black. He talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about his father's efforts to build a baseball community for him and other Black kids in their Greensboro neighborhood.
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211 episodes
Manage episode 426593119 series 3524329
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. takes a break from stand up to sit down with historians and former Negro League players in the new NPR podcast "Road to Rickwood."
Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.
Minor league pitcher Devin Sweet recently had a brush with the majors at a time when only six percent of Major League Baseball players are Black. He talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about his father's efforts to build a baseball community for him and other Black kids in their Greensboro neighborhood.
Sign up for WUNC's new Politics Newsletter here.
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