WEBVTT - Historical Records: Josh Gibson (feat. Fergie L. Philippe and Bob Kendrick) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:01.400 Hey, what's up you all? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.320 This is Questlove, and in honor of Black History Month, 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.000 on Fridays, we're gonna be releasing episodes of Historical Records, 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.639 which is my podcast with the story pirates and it's 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.400 an explosive fusion of hip hop and history, tailor made 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.960 for music loving kids and families. Yeah, it's something the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:22.720 entire family can listen to and enjoy together. So in 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.880 this episode, host Nemine learns about Josh Gibson, the greatest 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.880 power hitter baseball has ever seen, and Broadway star Freggiel 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.880 Philippe breaks it down in a brand new hip hop 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.080 track featuring an interview between Bob Kendrick, president of the 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.239 Negro League Baseball Museum, and a ten year old baseball 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:46.440 enthusiast named Peyton. Get your kids, sit back and enjoy 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.640 Historical Records, the show that proves that in order to 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.320 make history, you have to make some noise. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:02.880 Keep taking records. I know it's out here somewhere, hey, listeners, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.720 Nimity here outside my secret underground layer looking for a 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.280 time capsule that I buried over ten years ago. It 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.679 has all kinds of special items from my childhood that 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.760 I cannot wait to tell you about, Tana. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:17.880 Did you find it yet? 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.680 How's it going over there? I agree? The ground is 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:28.720 way too hard for these shovels. You have a jackhammer, Tina, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.280 you buried the lead. Let's get that thing up and 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.720 run it. This is great. We're gonna find my time 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.360 capsule in no time. This way, Tina, No, no, no, no, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.839 not that way. Where are you going now. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:48.400 Here? 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.760 Let me try. I appreciate the warning, but I'll be fine. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.040 You might be a little too small to run this 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.960 jackhammer properly. I'll just hop on and then wh. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.640 Why am I going? 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.040 Big way? Why am I going that way? Now? Where 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.120 am i? God? Like? 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.560 Well, that jackhammer clearly didn't work right, and we still 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.639 haven't found my time capsule. What Tina? You have a 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:26.080 bobcat digger, go get it. Why were we using shovels? 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.080 In a jackhammer? 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:28.320 We're gonna find this thing. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:40.880 No historical, you are now listening to historical. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.480 To make history, you got to have struggles to make history. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.520 You got to show pois cannot be quiet loud as 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.480 a riot to make history. You gotta make some noise, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.480 incredible dig right here, Tina. I know I've said this before, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.880 but I don't said of this is this fuck? We 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.160 hit the time capsule, now dig around it. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.040 I did it, but not my time. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:16.160 Capsule, and I dug it out. Fair point, Tina, you 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.800 did play a critical role. Now, listeners, you may be wondering, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.160 what does Niminy have in this time capsule that is 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.120 so important that it's delaying the start of this episode, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.200 an episode in which we are going to learn about 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:32.880 the great baseball legend Josh Gibson. Excellent question, listeners, to 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.880 answer it, Let's first drag my time capsule out of 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:42.240 this hole. Among the many things I am excited to 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.480 show you, first up is a red cape that I 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.800 wore pretty much every day for nearly two years when 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.000 I was a kid, and opening the look with the 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.560 key I always keep around my neck. You see, I 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.320 wanted to be a superhero, so my red cape was critical. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.760 Every good superhero needs a good red cap opening the latch. Wait, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.960 what it's green? My superhero cape is green? How is 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.280 that possible? I was certain it was red. I agree, Tin, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.400 know that is so strange. Surely the next thing in 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.640 my time caps sole will match my memory. After all, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.520 I have a fantastic memory. You don't know that I 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.000 see it. The green looks fantastic. This cape is even 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.159 cooler than I realized. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:27.560 What is it? 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.719 Tina? Right? Of course, we probably should get started with 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:36.080 the episode listeners. We'll get back to going through my 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.320 time caps a little little later. There's a lot in 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.159 here you're gonna want to see. But right now we 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.320 got to dive into today's historical figure, Josh Gibson. And 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.599 in order to do that, we have to find our 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:53.720 historian friend Gabe. WHOA that might be the biggest construction 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.719 vehicle I have ever seen. It's a giant excavator. Who 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:58.839 is driving that thing? 0:04:59.080 --> 0:04:59.680 Incoming? 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:01.400 Watch out? Everybody? 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.560 Wait? Is that Gabe? Gabe? Is that jo? Hey nimany 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.640 I can barely see you up there? 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.120 Come on up, you can use the ladder. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:16.200 Oh wow, yep, okay here come oho, we are really 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.839 high up. Hey Gabe, there you are. What are you 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.240 doing with this huge thing? 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.080 I heard you needed some help digging, so I brought 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.159 my personal digging machine to help. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:25.520 Oh. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.600 I actually found what I was looking for. And did 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.800 you say that this commercial machine typically used to dig 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.599 out massive minds? Is yours? 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.599 That is correct? You see, being a historian and getting 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.960 the history right often takes a little digging, sometimes literally. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.640 That makes a lot of sense. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.520 Speaking of digging, should we dig into the life of 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:47.799 the great Josh Gibson? 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.520 Okay, but Gabe, before we go back in time, can 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:52.279 I be honest? 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:53.000 Please? 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.160 I actually prefer that you be honest, respectfully. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.360 I really don't like that the history simulator looks and 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.560 feels sounds like a gooey alien pod. It's very uncomfortable 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:03.919 to be it. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.719 I couldn't agree more, which is why I built my 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.280 own history simulator. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.400 You did, no way, where is it? 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.080 We're sitting in it. Welcome to the History Excavator nineteen twenty. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.200 I know, I love it. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:24.719 Very impressive, you said, History Excavator nineteen twenty. Why nineteen twenty? 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.839 Oh, that's just where we're headed today. Hold on, niminy 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.120 a Roaring twenties, here we come. 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:35.560 It's so gay. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.640 This is about one hundred years. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.880 Ago, right nearly to the day, and it was a 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.440 time of incredible change in the United States. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.240 Hey, look at those cool ladies with short bob haircuts 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.160 and just below the knee lenked stresses. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:48.880 Uh. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.039 Yes, those ladies were known as flappers at the time. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.479 These dresses were considered by many to be scandalous for 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.039 being too short. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.279 Too short, that looked like formal dresses to me. I 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.080 guess we really have come a long way or a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.680 short way. I don't know. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.400 Whoom. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.840 Check out that guy wailing on the saxophone. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.800 Pretty amazing. Right in the nineteen twenties, there was an 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.160 explosion of music exploration, including the birth of jazz. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.320 Oh and look at that group of men with those 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.040 ridiculous pinstriped suits. They look away. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:24.280 Its niminy. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.720 Be careful, those men are very serious. In fact, they 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.560 might be gangsters. Gate. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.480 You really shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Just 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.200 because those guys look like cartoon mobsters doesn't mean they are. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.360 I bet they have a great sense of humor too. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.520 Watch this, hey, sir, your suit is hysterical. You look 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.480 like a businessman doing an impression of a zebra. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.960 I you think I'm funny, You think my suitors are 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.000 joke usink I'm a zebra business clown sent from the 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.040 Zuda make your. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.800 Lab No, no, no, none of that. It's a very 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.400 fetching outfit. And we have to go Gate hit it. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.440 Here we go down to the South. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:06.520 Who I was. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.040 Close, Gabe. Sorry for not trusting your instincts about who 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.720 is and who is in a gangst. Anyway, thanks for 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.320 getting us out of there. Speaking of getting out of there, Gabe, Oh, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.880 I see our black families packing their things and getting 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:22.480 out of town. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.920 It was known as the Great Migration. Lots of black 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.400 folks were moving from the rural south to cities in 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.920 the north with the promise of safer communities, better jobs, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.720 more pay, and a brighter future. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.720 And once they got to the north, where would they work. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:42.640 Let's head to the north. Here we are in the North. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.920 Often black folks would work in steel factories like that one, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.719 in cities like this one Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.880 Look over their Gabe, a department store. Can we go in? 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.760 I want to buy one of those flapper dresses. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.240 It's not just any department store. It's Gimbals, which is 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.720 where Josh Gibson worked. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.440 Cool head through the revolving doors and check it out. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:09.719 Oh mah, there are a headspinning amount of flapper dress options. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.360 Too many options actually, and suddenly I have no interest 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.520 in shopping. Hey, did you say Josh Gibson works here? 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.440 I thought he was a baseball player. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.480 He was, but when his family first moved to the North, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.440 he wanted to be an electrician. I know it sounds weird, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.960 but electricity was still considered a fairly new technology, so 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.360 it was a great trade to get into. And he 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.960 started as an elevator operator at Gimbals Gabe. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.000 Sorry to interrupt, but who's that teenager over by the 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.280 old timey elevator. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.680 That's actually Josh Gibson. He takes people up and down 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.040 to different floors in the store. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.880 Oh, of course, an elevator operator. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:49.120 Got it. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.439 But how does he transition from this to baseball? 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.760 Well, this department store doesn't just have an irresponsible amount 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.200 of flapper dress options. They also have an amateur baseball team. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.280 They do, Yeah, they do, and it's called the gimbal Ac. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.520 And that's how Josh Gibson started playing baseball. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.559 He was only sixteen though. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.200 That's true, but he took to the sport like a 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.120 fish to water. Josh knew how to keep his eye 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.800 on the ball and slam crack knock it out of 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.400 the park. He was a home run king and in 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.360 no time at all, other local teams were eyeing this 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:24.400 young prospect. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.679 So did he quit his job to play baseball, not yet. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.559 He kept his job at the department store while playing baseball. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.320 He had to keep that job to make ends meet. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.080 You see, at the time, there was a different league 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.200 for black players. It was known as the Negro League, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.520 and Josh played for a less official Negro League team, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.600 kind of like the minor leagues today. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.959 And did he eventually go pro? 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.840 You bet. His name and his fame grew and he 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.400 eventually was able to go professional. But it was almost 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:55.200 by accident. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.280 That sounds like an interest a story. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:10:59.040 It is. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:08.359 Hold tight. We're headed to the game where it all happened, Gabe. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.320 We might be at the wrong baseball game. I don't 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.480 see Josh Gibson anywhere on the field. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.280 That's because he was in the stands. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.720 The stands, so he wasn't playing. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.600 Yeah, it's nineteen thirty and Josh is still playing in 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.680 the less official leagues, but he was at this major 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.160 league game as a fan. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.239 I see him up there in the stands. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.040 Josh and everyone else at the stadium was watching the 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.080 Homestead Grays, the best Pittsburgh team in the Negro League. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.280 Gabe, there are some seats open break behind Josh. Let's 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.200 watch the game from. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.520 There perfect, Hey, where'd you get all that food. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.240 At the concession stand, Gabe Warehouse. Don't worry. I got 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.240 you a hot dog, some peanuts, some nacho's, a cotton candy. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.000 And a large drink. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:54.840 Oh, thank you. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:56.120 Here are our seats. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:57.640 This is a lot of food. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.480 Okay. The batter is up and I can barely hear 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.600 the announcer over your chomping. And here comes the bitch 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:04.679 swing in a miss. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.480 But oh, something's wrong with buck Ewing, the catcher for 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:07.960 the Grayes. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.720 He seems to have cut the pitch in the wrong 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:10.959 way and injured his hand. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.240 And I'm pretty sure he's about to start screaming. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.160 Ouch my hand. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.080 I'm hurt, and I can no longer play baseball today. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.560 Wuch Well, buckewing inside a game is day. He is 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.920 done playing baseball bart today and possibly tomorrow, in the 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.960 next day, and probably the day after that, if I'm 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.280 being honest the way he said out, who knows when 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.240 Buckle play next? 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:31.800 Mmmm? 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.760 Niminy. This cotton candy is amazing, Gabe. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.760 Please, I'm trying to watch the game and buck Ewing 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:39.679 is out. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.640 Making eggs even worse than Grays have no backup catcher 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.080 what are they going to do. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.920 No backup catcher. Well, you can't play baseball without a catcher. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.000 Everyone knows that. Wait, the coach for the Grays is 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:51.880 walking toward us. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.920 That's because there's an eighteen year old sitting in the 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.600 stands right in front of us that has the reputation 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.960 of being one of the best hitters. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.400 In Pittsburg, Josh Gibson. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.440 That's right. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.600 The coach is asking him to play. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.400 And Josh is saying yes. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.640 I actually can't believe what I'm saying. The Grays seemed 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.120 to have plucked some kid out of the stands and 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.120 now he's going to play getter and this kid even 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.400 play Gabe. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.240 I can't believe this is how Josh Gibson got his 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:22.280 big break. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.400 Fortune favors the prepared Nimini. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.800 Oh, of course it does. Why do you think I 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.560 bought so many snacks? So did he play well in 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:29.960 the game. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.640 Josh had such an incredible game that afterwards the Grays 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.199 took him on as a full time member of the team. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.160 Josh Gibson is up the bat, and. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.520 He traveled the country playing baseball. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.320 And here's the bitch he can actually going coming. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:51.319 God, Josh Gipson absolutely fashion Harry Cleveland to that balls 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:52.360 heads it out of town. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.840 Oh game, What an incredible start to a career. What 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.440 were Josh's career stats like? 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:04.600 Well, unfortunately Josh played in a time when black athletes 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.880 didn't have all of their games recorded, like the professional 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.280 white teams of the day. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.360 What so they don't know how many home runs he hits. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.200 They have a decent idea. It's believed that he hit 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.400 over eight hundred home runs, and two hundred and twenty 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.760 four of those were against the top Negro league teams. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:28.040 That's incredible, truly. But so much of Josh Gibson's story 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.160 as tall tales and legends. You remember that ball that 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.960 he smashed in Cleveland? Yeah, well some say it landed 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.680 in Cincinnati the next day. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:38.560 Wow. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.680 And when history is a little hazy, some of the 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.560 stories burn brighter than others. Like the legend of what 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.080 happened in Yankee Stadium? 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.920 What happened in Yankee Stadium? 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:54.960 Let's go watch Welcome to nineteen thirty four left field, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.080 Yankee Stadium. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.040 Oh, look, Josh is up at the plate. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.880 Then we're right on time. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:05.360 There goes the pitch and Josh tick food, big cut. Oh, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:06.280 he got a hold of that. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.520 He's the black that thing. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.520 The ball is flying to a left field that's going 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.200 over in the third deck next to the left field 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.640 pull Pennant a hole right in the stadium. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:16.720 Good left Christ just the. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.040 Great Josh Gibson has done it. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:18.320 Now. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.240 He is responsible for the only fair ball ever to 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.200 be head fully out. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.800 Of Yankee stady O Memony. I had no idea you 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.880 were such a fantastic baseball announcer. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.440 I'm a fast learner, I'll say, you know, Gabe, it's 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.520 awesome that there are all these amazing stories about Josh Gibson, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.960 but it's frustrating that his stats weren't tracked the same 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.480 way white players stats were. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.000 It's frustrating, all right, But even without stats, he lives 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.360 on forever in baseball history. That's how good he was. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.440 That's a neat way to think about it. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.200 Some people call Josh Gibson the black Babe Ruth. Others 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.400 called Babe Ruth the white Josh Gibson. I love that 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.200 he ended his career as the second highest paid player 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.800 in the Negro League and was eventually inducted into the 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:04.880 Baseball Hall of Fame. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.040 And I suppose today we are making a historical record 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.200 of Josh, so one hundred years later he is still 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.440 being honored. His song won't include tons of statistics, obviously, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.800 but it will be an earth shattering hip hop tune 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:21.840 that will never. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:22.440 Leave you a head. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:23.840 Shall we head back then? 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:24.480 Yes? 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.520 Please? 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:29.960 Thanks Gabe, I got a run. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.160 Good luck, Niminy, swing for the fences, I always do. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.360 Okay, listener as we're back, and I am walking to 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.880 the studio like Josh wat from the dugout to the play, excited, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.760 confident and ready to make history. Oh that was quick. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.000 Here we are at the studio. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:46.560 Oh hy t know? 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.080 Are the musicians ready? Great time to turn this piece 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.440 of history into music featuring the incredible actor, rapper and 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.840 singer Fergie l Philippe. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.680 Okay, here's a mention that Josh. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.600 Gibson and no one's running off the map. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.119 It's a long wall the. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.120 Date one field, someone's going going. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:16.119 And smash slam, Another one gone, bashpam, another one gone 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.280 the cracker of the bat, and another one gone. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.800 A tip of the cap because. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.480 Another one gone. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.560 Wait two twenties ten and six foot. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.240 One got a bait at the plate for a big 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.440 home run Bob pops off the stick elect The shot 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.119 of a gun is the man is the lecture. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.200 It is Josh Gibbson. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.520 He's so dynamic, his hits titanic, his swings like magic. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.760 See him coming from the dugout of the team might panic. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.359 The crowd is ecstatic. The end of so tragic. First 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.320 we go back to where it all began. Born to 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.480 Georgia in the twenties, the great, my great Joan took 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.320 his family north into Pittsburgh, then, where Josh trained to 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.160 be an electrician. And that's where he might have stayed 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.320 fixing electronics. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:51.320 All his days. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:52.919 But he got a job at a place. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.080 Where the squad and Josh the field, the people were 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.760 on wants to sharecroppers, but now he snare pop ups. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.360 He operated elevators, now he studied hitting. Hated that could 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.680 be no imitator, because I mean, as an innovator. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.360 Ain't nobody great. He's the baseball terminator. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.440 Flash slam, another one gone, bash bam, another one gone. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.720 The craft good the bat and another one gone a 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:15.919 tip bud the capta is another one gone, another one gone, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.560 another one gone, another one gone. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.639 Here, another one gone. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.160 It's seventeen years, he had eight hundred home runs three 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.960 sixty average lifetime. That ain't o hum canning on picking 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.280 off the base pathball fun in the Negro League, but 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.560 the same league with no one black. Babe Ruth was 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.760 off the description, but many claimed the babe with the 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.960 white Josh Gibson. So if you have some wisdom, you 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.800 see he's in position to make the majors. But it's 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.640 pig man skin his race. Biggats believe it dictates their 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.600 sale of tickets. They want him to stay in his place. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.080 Gibson handles the mistakes with grace, always maintaining the smile 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:47.480 upon his. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.480 Face, keeps setting records, keeps. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.440 Getting hits, falls into love, has a few kids place 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.760 around the world, from seed to seed. Still they never 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.880 let the man in the MLB smash slam. Another one gone, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.920 bash bam, another one gone the craft good the bat, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.000 and another one gone. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:04.919 A tip budd the cat because another. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:11.159 One gone, another one gone, another one gone, who another 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.080 one gone. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:13.920 Yeah, another one gone. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.280 When Josh Gibson was thirty two, he started getting head X, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.560 got some X raised, then some bad news the next day. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:27.080 Kept playing for his hometown team, the Homestead Grace, but 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:34.000 four years later, Josh Gibbson sadly passed away. There wasn't 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:35.919 t because of this, he'd be forgotten. But his game 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.840 still ILSs. It's hard, and the Moni grace will say 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.320 his name, top twenty player from back then to this year. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.760 Even though another one's gone, He's still here, Yeah, still here, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:51.080