AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 9-11-2024

is all right that was some more comden footage vacation footage and they ended up in uh the Outer Banks Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina I know that place very well um sandflies and mosquitoes that's what I remember about that experience uh I'm skip aler welcome to the AV Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old educational films and 16 mm films and that was uh some home movies that we're on 16 and that's part three um I think we'll watch the rest of it tomorrow not sure uh anyways so I've been doing some work with some uh Library of Congress National Archives materials and um here's Snuffy who you might not know about Snuffy is uh part of the Smokey the Bear Cinematic Universe and uh was forgotten enjoy [Music] yes I'm [Music] Snuffy the forest ranger lives with me I help him guard the forest against fire sometimes we drive to town together I like that because then I get to see my foul Smokey as you know Smokey prevents forest fires everywhere I help Smokey prevent them on my Forest whenever I see Smokey I renew my pledge to be his [Music] helper people often stop at the ranger station and ask where they can have a picnic the Ranger shows them the picnic [Music] grounds I like boys and girls and I usually go along you see I want to be sure they don't start a forest [Music] fire it doesn't take kids long to unpack the car and start boasting those pardon the expression hot dogs a good Woodsman keeps his fire small and builds it in the fireplace when one is [Music] provided when folks are careful I enjoy watching them have a good time many people are careful and they leave a clean [Music] Camp when they go away I run to say goodbye to the boys and girls sometimes a grown-up is in a hurry to get home he forgets that his lighted cigarette is a dangerous weapon and can start a terrible fire in my Forest they ride away so fast sometimes it's hard to stop them then I have to do the job myself I have to stop that hot cigarette from starting a fire I scratch and chew it until I'm sure it's out dead [Music] out that's how I keep my promise to Smoky but remember people like you must help us so please do as smokey says be careful with matches with smokes with campfires with every fire remember only you can prevent forest [Music] fires oh I'm confused all right um part of it is one you've got Smokey Bear what do you need Snuffy for like you've got a bear who is uh the forest fire bear like why do you need to create this other character I I I'm very confused by all this uh the other thing is uh the voices yes are all wrong the voice for Smoky the Bear is not should be deeper more Barone like a James Earl Jones type uh rest in peace uh type of person and that was too I don't know it's too too high register uh also Snuffy was um yeah there was a lot of problems with that film lot of problems don't get me started uh let's learn about copper Mining and smelting [Music] enjoy the Earth is a rich and fast storehouse from it come all the materials that we use one of the most important of these materials is copper without copper our modern world as we know it could not [Music] exist copper is found in many places throughout the world but perhaps the largest single copper mining operation known is this open pit mine at Bingham Utah in the United States to uncover the oil it is necessary to blast down and haul away mountains of Earth that lie on top of it to prepare for blasting workmen first drill vertical holes the steel drill has a hole down its Center coming out at the bit water passes through this hole to keep the bit cool as it grinds its way through Earth and Solid Rock when the drilling is done a long blowpipe is dropped into the hole air under pressure is blown in shooting out all water mud and loose dirt leaving the hole clean and ready to be loaded with dynamite horizontal holes are drilled in the same way explosions in these holes cut out the bottom of the walls to keep them even explosions in the vertical holes blow down the great masses of Earth and on lower levels of ore vertical holes are loaded with granulated Dynamite it is poured and tamped tightly to the bottom stick powder is used in the horizontal Holes about 375 lb of powder are loaded into each one it also is tamped solidly to the end and now blasting time after blasting the great power shovels go to work to hul away the Earth that covers the ore trains of empty 100 ton cars are run into the Blasted down sections and the shovels begin loading 125 cars of Earth are moved to every 100 cars of ore as the levels of the pit are blasted back railroad tracks must be moved back also to bring the empty cars alongside the shovels this track mover picks up both itself and the track and jolts over sideways to the new position in the lower section of the pit ore is loaded the ore rock is grayish in color but only 1 cent copper sometimes you find richer pieces with so much copper mineral you can see it in the rock as the cars are loaded they move out of the pit and are coupled with others to make up a single long train then they head for the mill arriving here the train is split up and a few cars at a time are backed into the Tipple for dumping two cars move on and are turned upside down the larger chunks of ore are caught and broken by this big Crusher the smaller pieces go right on through then the ore moves on conveyor belts from one Crusher to another being ground into finer and finer pieces finally it reaches these great steel drums are ball Mills each drum contains 22 tons of steel balls which grind The Ore until it becomes almost like powder new balls are added every day and when they come out again they're almost worn away in these ball Mills too water is mixed with the ore which now is so fine and powdery it makes the water muddy and thick as it leaves the big drums chemicals that make froth are added next or particles containing copper stick to the frothy bubbles which rise to the top of the water this is called the flotation process because the powder particles containing copper known as copper sulfide actually float to the top with the bubbles now this froth is drawn off the top while the mud and waste are drawn off underneath and carried out to this dump which covers 7 1/2 square miles the copper sulfide is removed bubbles by these disc-shaped canvas filters strong suction causes the sulfide to stick to the canvas as it rotates through the bubbles next the suction is changed to pressure and the sulfide falls off it is now copper concentrate 30% pure Copper from the mill the concentrate goes to the smelter where it will be made 99% pure copper here it is emptied from the railway car by this big shovel other ores containing silica iron sulfur and other minerals must be added to the Copper concentrate before smelting to make it heat and burn more rapidly here a carload of these ores is dumped after the ores have been added to the Copper concentrate the mixture is hauled to the rooster now the heating and burning process begins sulfur Burns first that is what you see here from The Roaster The Ore mixture now called Cal signs goes to the great furnaces where for the first time it becomes hot enough to melt these furnaces reach almost 2800° F in its molten form the copper ore mixes with other elements such as iron silica and lime to form what is called copper mat and slag the slag is waste it is hauled out and dumped the molten Mass Cascades down the side of the dump like lava from a volcano back inside the smelter the molten copper mat is drawn from the great furnaces in huge buckets handled by overhead cranes it is now dumped into the converters this long section of the smelter is called the converter aisle it is filled with noise smoke and heat in the converters air is blown through the molten mixture to help burn out impurities finally there Remains the molten copper approximately 99% pure it also contains small quantities of precious metals such as gold and silver now the molten metal is poured into moles to form ingots of blister copper they are cooled by streams of water they come out of the bath still steaming and too hot to touch except with hooks and asbest gloves workmen load the blocks weighing 500 lb each onto hand trucks and take them immediately into waiting box cars where they are to be shipped to refineries for further processing after this refining has been done the copper will be made into telephone cables electric wires copper sheets wrappings for motor generators and a thousand other items that serve you and your home every day as you pick up your telephone start your vacuum sweeper or food mixer remember that it is copper coming from the great Storehouse of Earth that makes possible these useful items around your home copper is the servant of our electrical age [Music] wow so um some of you noticed like wow it seems like very contrasty where you know the colors are are a little on the high end and the Shadows are very very dark and that what that is what happens when someone shoots codak Chrome edits and then bumps it back out to Kodak Chrome and they're not paying attention to the levels of uh because um Cod Chrome is very thick and if you have something in the shadows you really have to illuminate it uh to get it to shine through and if you're not paying attention to that you might blow out the um the color um and this is where uh HDR High dynamic range scanning sometimes can help but uh again Kodak Chrome like I said is it's beautiful but if you're in the shadows forget it it's it's not going to work um what do we got here who cops out who makes it and who doesn't make it it seems a game like a trick of fate but really it's more than that the best time of your life the years from 15 to 18 happy time swinging time Blossom time you'll never be this pretty again you'll never be this sharp again this is the youth that poets sing about that playwrights praise that painters love to draw this is adolescence the best time of your life says who say adults say people who can't remember the pain of adolescence the doubts the indecisions the fight against Temptation the courage that it takes to take one step after another into manhood or Womanhood today more and more young people are running into trouble part of it is luck part of it is Circumstance the breaks the people you happen to know but but a bigger part seems to be something inside you your own thing kids do have some say in what they make of themselves more to say in fact than they think how much is Choice how much is Chance why stick with the system or why cop out what part of action is accident what part has been thought out with the cool Shar eyed logic of Youth [Music] aren't you frightened why should I be frightened babies are born every other second but you're still a kid you're still in school so what my grandmother had two kids by the time she was my age well she was married wasn't she what difference does that make in a delivery room well she had someone to take care of her and to take care of the baby I'll be all right what about school and all that so what all they can do is kick me up besides I don't think I'll pass English to see her anyway what about the boy will marry you who wants a 16-year-old husband but you must like him well I liked him but I don't want to be married to then why did you get pregnant well I didn't do it on purpose did I but you know about the pill so I didn't happen to have it it's not cheap you know does your mother know yet no but she will and maybe she'll find out that she can't keep pushing me around what do you mean well that's what makes a grown-up woman isn't it making love having a baby it's not learning math or writing an English composition and at 16 you're old enough to be a woman well maybe it wasn't an accident well how do I know what it was some people don't want to know why they do certain things they'd like to call it luck or accident so that they are not absolutely responsible for their troubles others can face reality Hey Man Nice play how long was your pass about 40 yards I guess that's pretty good for a school boy not nowadays I can do better you like football I love it I just live for how do you like school I hate it what do you mean well my grades aren't very good I just about scraped through then why are you here well like I said I drop out I don't play ball so how do you get through your courses well I have to work a little harder than the other kids so I hire a tutor in math that's my worst one what does that cost you about $5 now an hour and they work for a Furniture mover on Saturdays is playing ball really that important to you sure man it's the only thing I'm really good at forland football just be another dumb clck in the school I see what you mean when you discover a strength you never know where it will lead you this boy is being pulled into Life by his muscle why not hi Bill how you doing not bad man not bad is it better than School you must be kidding no teachers on my neck no kids laughing at me plus I get a $165 an hour how much was your take-home pay last week about $48 and I'm getting a new car next week can you really afford it hell man I'm just beginning you don't think I'm going to stay at a$1 65 I want to get to be a mechanic some of those guys make as much as $7 an hour well why'd you drop out couldn't you learn faster going to an automotive trade school nah I don't like school never did not since I've been in a bunch of BR telling you what to do how to do it you feel like a baby all the time I'm no baby I'm 16 I can do a day's work I'm a man well it's hard for a man to live on $48 a week I told you I'm going to get a raise the boss promised me one when I first started is he going to get a raise get a raise hell no he's not going to get a raise he won't even have a job I'm I'm looking for somebody now to replace him what's the matter what's the matter well he just can't count he's no good at figures can't make a charge slip out properly can't you help him with the figures hell I can't help him with the numbers if he couldn't learn in school with a professional teacher there's nothing I could do for him some weaknesses come through to plague you forever and ever the earlier you can begin to do something about them the better off you are you can't cup out of everything do you hate school too no not especially going to be a doctor maybe who knows don't you know what you want to be man I'm only 16 my brother's 19 and he hasn't got the faintest he's in college even why College if he's not headed for a career that's the trouble with everybody today I don't understand well everybody thinks of school like it's just a place to get a job you mean school is be become a kind of a training program exactly or earning the right to get in a rat race like a license to work in a factory or in an office well what's the matter with that who needs it it's bad enough that you have to do it when the time comes like going into the army then why do you say school is okay because I'd be bored to death if I wasn't learning anything but aren't the courses boring sometimes when the teachers aren't interested really or the textbooks are stupid or badly written I mean the stuff you have to learn you must be joking what's boring about learning something new what's so dull about a French novel or reading Shakespeare or doing a physics experiment or playing a math game game what else can you call a trig problem it's like a puzzle you make it sound like fun it is sort of fun if you're not sweating about it why do you suppose more kids don't enjoy school maybe they do but you know don't expect them to admit it do you you don't think I would if I was on the air yet that's what so many youngsters complain of most boredom the phrase is there's nothing to do it was boredom that brought Jane all the way from school to this room in San Francisco wasn't it Jane I don't know exactly I just had to get away can you remember why can I everybody was hassling me my mother and my father my kid brother it was hell what was was bothering your parents this I think I was some sort of dope atct or something well adults are rather frightened about any narcotics I'll say they don't know the difference between scagg and speed you know you can't get hooked on grass that's what some doctor say at least not in the same way they get addicted to heroin have you ever tried LSD once but I didn't like it I had a bad trip that one really scares me you could really flip out in that how did you get started on gra just to pass the time it was such a drag back in Mountain Grove you know go to the flick watch the tube go get a soda that was it how about sports or Hobbies I'm lousy in sports and I'm just not a Knitter by temperament what do you do up here friends parties it's a different scene what do you do all day not much I sleep late what else are you on beside the grass speed once in a while when I'm really down it helps me forget what do you want to forget George mostly I guess George he was the boy I was living with he left because things were getting too serious between him and me he wanted to be free don't you want to be free yes that's what I'm here but but but not this free there is no single answer but in every life a decision is made and for every negative decision there is a positive alternative often it is hard to know which is which sure adolescence can be the best time of your life but it is also the time when you are most easily tempted to give up and throw it all away to hurt yourself before the world hurts you it's a time when you need common sense and some confidence in yourself growing up is a tough business [Music] so that sounded like Alexander scorby as the narrator uh as the voice of God that was of swooping in and asking all these questions and Alexander scorby was uh what else said he he did a lot of uh stuff he was kind of the Peter Thomas of the late 60s and early 70s um and uh a great voice um for that time and uh today we're going to show part two of there was always sun shining someplace um which is the documentary that was done by another amazing voice uh James Earl Jones who passed a couple of days ago and who we miss uh I was hoping to find something that had him in it physically in it but I couldn't find anything uh in my collection I'm sure there's something out there uh but uh this is about the Negro baseball leagues and part one one was awesome and so here is part two enjoy after Satchel pige the two biggest names in black baseball were James cool Papa Bell the game's finest base runner and Josh Gibson the black babe ruth I never shall forget this night I was walking up the ramp with j and one little kid ran up to Mr Gibson Mr Gibson will you give me one of your Broken Bats J say son I don't break bats I wear them and that and that's how he appeared to do he'd come up there with and seemed as though he was squeezing the sld out of about of course cool he was the fastest man that ever put on a pair of baseball shoes he could go around the base in I think it was 12 and 1 12 or 13 seconds something like that but he was really fast and if he'd get a hard ground where the ball would bounce he would he he would chop down on the ball and make the ball hop up and whoever got it but they just walk back to the position because he'd down the first base if he played on play a Parks like they play now with that astro turf I don't think they ever would get him out in Mexico he he was on on the same team that I was on and the first first game he played in he was on first base the next hitter hit a ball into right field COA went to Third Base so fast they stopped the game and said he cut across behind the piter he said it's no imposs no POA said it just couldn't happen you nobody can go from first to third that fast now somebody said that uh he was so fast until he' turn out the light in the room he'd be in the bed before it got dark in the room now I don't know about that now that's when on me while he was in the class by running base of course we had three out fielders that were they were fast too we had boy named Ted pige and another boy Jimmy Crutchfield and cool Papa Bell but uh they would get a ball well they were just unbelievable I I had seen cou I knew his reputation but I always believed that I could play as much Outfield as anybody now the Nashville Southern League had a park that was down in in the down in the valley in a hole he had Bank like that one there with the fence run around the out right field was way high the hill high up there and the right field had to be a goat you run up the side of the Hill play the side of the hill so I remember one night we were playing a game and I'm high on this hill so I can look down at the center fielder they hit a ball over a cool Papa's head and and the crack of a bad boy I can see cool running and he turned at the right time pick that ball I said well that stopped me from saying that I could be cool playing out for you well you couldn't get to the ball as quickly I couldn't get to it no but you're a great uh outfi a great ball player who you that thanks I scratch your back again the glory of the crawfords was shortlived while they dominated the Negro Leagues during the mid-30s they fell dramatically not to an upstart Negro League franchise but to the manipulations of an obscure Latin American dictator Raphael tro to bolster his political career tro sent his agents North in the summer of 1937 to bring back Satchel Page and later his teammates the entire Negro League was threatened we went down San mango and one I shouldn't say this but I'm G say it uh I like to broke up the Negro League because it's paying good money it's paying good money down there I had uh one of the world's greatest black Baseball clubs on and uh we had to win we didn't know we was playing in politics we had this satel Josh and ker went to tredia city which at that time was the capital of Santa Domingo I think they call it Dominican Republic now so actually off the Pittsburgh crawfords that were six of us that uh jump they call it jump in those days jump the team and Lead see just cuz you leave the team after those players leave naturally the ball Club just didn't anything else I had played before in Mexico with a great player by the name of Martin Deigo and uh he was the manager of this team in uh the Dominican Republic and he's the one that's had s for me the president the thing he give a $100 for every pit winning game and S you like a PCT every game he got all the best ball players he thought and for him to win his team to win that give him give him more Prestige I said to the president the team I want to pach because s he want to pach every week we we have four peaches but he's ready to pach every game one time we went over there to play him and you know the ball players used to get together we're all from the states we go by where the ball players live and kind of socialize live talk about old times and things and we went over there hunting for Satchel and them and and couldn't find them so little kid on the street they know all the business he said it's down in the carel c a r c e l that's jail in Spanish Jilla had put them in jail at night before they going to play us so they wouldn't rise around after the series was over uh K Papa told me this story he says the general came up and said you know say look you play for the presidency say we don't lose so he's walking around and say it took his big 45 hours boom boom down in the you know Court Jo says I I said I wonder get the hell out of here say how how are we going to get away give was 25 minutes to get together and be on the dock and we was together in 25 minutes and brought us to get us to Puerto Rica and then a Clipper they come got us and I never have been back no more outside of [Music] that the Latin American Experience was a crucial event for all the better Negro League players in Latin America they earned good salaries and played in an integrated environment they enjoyed Fame and tested themselves against their white Major League counterparts I played our T winners Puerto Rica Caracas in Venezuela Mexico and Cuba I was in Puerto Rica in 1935 and winter of 193 five I would pre ball here in the summer and go down there and play during the winter our whole Pittsburgh Crawford team was invited to play exhibition games in Mexico against some mostly Cuban and Mexican ball players and um the American League sent an Allstar team down there composed of Jimmy Fox Rogers Hornby and a few others in 1935 we were down in Puerto Rica playing during the winter we had Allstar team there in Cincinnati Reds came down at the Spring train in the spring of 1936 and they said that we were going to play them a few games after they got in condition well they practiced about two or three weeks and got in condition or well some condition and we played and we won two out of three and they said that uh they didn't think they wanted to play anymore 1945 I was with Jackie Robson Campanella Sam je through all of us cared a Allstar team to Caracas and Venezuela and played against the local teams and we were too strong for him and um they told us that we had to lose a few ball games after we won the first nine they said that we had to lose one or two so we told him no we were going to lose in the ball game that uh if we were just too strong for them well we just come on back to the United States so they took the second baseman and a pitcher and a catcher from us and put on the local team and we still beat him and then they said uh look said we got you got to picture some other picture don't picture one of your regular pictures and we pitched the third basem fell name fell some snow and we shut them out for nothing so they said then I said we know we're going to send you home now but we we did uh they sent to Cuba got a team to come there to play us and also sent Mexico got a team to come there to play us and we had a pretty fair contest after that so uh then in uh in Cuba in 19 and 1939 this is the first time I ever been put out of a ball game and uh I was playing firstes base and the fell came down to Fresh Base andai called him out called him safe and I thought he was out and I was talking to the umire in English and the umire didn't understand English he understood Spanish and he put me out the ball game said I call him a word so I was telling him about no I didn't call him a word so we called the manager over and told him that tell him what I said he said I'm afraid to tell him what you said the best Caribbean baseball was played in Cuba the Negro Leaguers and Cubans had a long and Lively rivalry in both the states and in the Caribbean Ted page recalls one of Cuba's most outstanding pitches Lis Tiant senior the old man who was a good left-hander during those years pitching for the Cubans he had all the pitches really and could throw hard I had tripled off with him the first time up I tripled off a curb ball you know throwing curb ball to left hand hitters it's supposed to be supposed to get him out back him away from the plate but I I guess I pulled right into that one next time I came up he threw me what I thought was going to be a curve ball and I just s of leaned in on it to wait for it to break and it broke right up the side of my head and I still have a clean spot up there now that no hair has grown back there in 50 years and I laid right out at the home plate and they put water on me and trying to get me back to not to normal back to life and I can remember sort of coming back to my senses and I could hear Tiant say to me you know he had Doan too well and with me lying flat on my back and my head getting bigger and hurting I thought the best he could do would say are you all right fight the Cubans and the American ball players we were enemies bitter enemies really on ball field at night afterward we all through we were best of friends we played cards together do whatever we baseball players do no problem soon as we got on that ball field we were bitter enemies in the mid-40s a new threat to American baseball appeared from South of the Border Mexico offered them such fabulous salary I made so much money uh I had a trunk full of them Pils look listen and when he got to the Border I could put him in my watch pocket here in American curency you see there were two multi-millionaires the Pasquel Brothers I believe they name were so they got after our negro players I didn't feel first of all I didn't think I could match the Pasqual I heard they were multi-millionaires and if we' ever got in a a bidding contest they would have definitely won and secondly I just didn't think it was the right thing to do Latin American baseball was an exotic part of the Negro League's story however the relationship between the Underworld the gangster world of the black community and the Negro Leagues was black baseball's most fascinating and unknown chapter ab and afam Manley owned the nework Eagles and Abe controlled Jersey City racketeering oh he was in a 100% illegal business but the people loved him he was what is known as a number Banker he had enough money to throw away on investing in something that he wanted to do which was a organizers negro baseball and he ended up actually losing or investing or guess that word is all right $100,000 in the Negro baseball but he enjoyed it and we always had a wonderful team a lot of our black owners were in number business at that time and that's how baseball wasn't paying off but with the side attractions like numbers and Piccolo and all like that and maybe some El gambling maybe that's how they help and was able to take care baseball the gate receipts and the other things of course you know was no endorsement with no television with no radio or anything like that at that time for black baseball so they had to have some other side attraction to keep the team going and it because the team didn't make enough to pay out Sal and so forth buy buses and so forth so they had to have a little suest going in the 1930s many rocketeers owned Negro League teams Pittsburgh's G Greenley was perhaps the most flamboyant of them all I'm always happy to repeat that Gus gave me a job one winner doing just what I'm doing now I sat in a chair from 11: until about 3: in front of one of his places to I was a lookout and I got a salary just sitting on that chair for about 4 hours all I had to do if to if I saw some suspicious looking people drive up in the car or coming down the street who look like they might be police I just pressed the button and I didn't have to press that button once all went along I get $15 a week just to sit in that chair for those four hours every day I thought then that Gus would well I knew he was doing me a favor but I thought why would Gus do this and after I had thought about it Gus did this little chore for me to keep me make sure that I was there for the following spring to play with the pittsbur crawfords CU I had developed a I guess I had allowed a tag to be hung on to me as a guy who would jump from one ball Club to another I was there too for the next spring which was in 1933 during the war many of the big league players entered the military service and The rosters of the major leagues were filled with 4 F players the contradiction between fighting a war for democracy and living with baseball segregation was highlighted by the wartime slogan if he's good enough for the Navy he's good enough for the majors integration was imminent but segregation still persisted Negro League veterans like Chad Brewer knew they could make it in the majors but I tell you how hard it was they had the propaganda that no negro could play in the major leagues in organized ball they even went so far and I I'm saying this with No Malice no Prejudice anything to hire one armed white man to play before they'd give a a colored man a chance with two arms and everybody out there knows that the only thing that a one-armed man could do as well as a man with two arms is a scratch on that side if it was itch I know never dreamed of getting to play in the major leagues because uh then it was really a barrier that kept us apart although they knew that uh we were good enough there's some of us who would like to have had a tri and believe that we could have made the major league some of us my first scouting job was with the Mr Connie Max Athletics and we were very good friends and I uh asked him one day I was up to Ballpark why they wouldn't har some Negroes since we were we would beat them all the time he said well it's just too many of you boys to go in at once but uh that's far as it got I I realized though that I I could play Big League boy I knew it I remember one Sunday evening we played a double head in Griffin Stadium in Washington and Clark Griffin asked Jo Josh Gibson I to come up to this office after the game we went up and said uh your boy like to be in the Major League yeah you like feel on the Senor yeah do you think he can make the team Well we'd be out there trying then he explained it he said well at this time don't anybody want to be the first to take blacks into the uh American into the major league said but we know you boys can play ball and we know you can play good baseball and some of us would like to have it but the time just hadn't come and uh the time hadn't not come on October 28th 1945 the barrier fell Jackie Ros Robinson a rookie shortstop with the Kansas City monarchs was selected by Dodger general manager Branch Ricky to reintegrate baseball I think Jackie was an excellent choice because of his intelligence and then and put that together with his ability made him a natural because there are a lot of other great ball players in our league in our Negro League but they wouldn't have taken what Jackie did he was smart enough to know that it would all work out some of the others hotheaded they wouldn't they wouldn't have Stood Still for it I don't know if I could have done it or not now all of us believe and all of us most of of us who I talk to think that Jackie was the ideal man to be the first to get into midet League now he wasn't our best baseball player but we believe he was better with the best man at that time because he had played with white in h College he big we about 205 or six something like that he's about 6 feet and uh he was fast and uh he was intelligent and that went a long way with being the first to be in anything he was signed by the Dodgers and sent to Montreal 1946 to begin his uh uh organized baseball career he constantly improved and he became a real star say in in a couple of years for the dodgers for many Negro League owners Branch Ricky was not a hero Mr Ricky's um program was very unfair after all he took Jackie Robinson and Don Nukem and Rory compella from our negro baseball without even saying thank you let alone answering our letters or giving us any compensation for them and for many Negro League players integration was bittersweet when they took him in in 1940 47 I was 40 years old and I knew I couldn't play Major League ball at that age couldn't even hard play black baseball at that age and uh one thing when you're playing baseball and you get old the nights are not long enough for you to rest you're just as tired the next day as you were when you went to B the night before several of our boys made it to the majors I know you've all heard of Larry Dolby going to Cleveland and Monty Urban going to the Giants and Don Nukem going to the Dodgers and there were many oh there were so many we had a third baseman Ray danage what a third baseman he ended up in the miners after the the Negro baseball collapsed and they were about a dozen more of my players that went to the minor league teams took of course they were all getting a little older but they could still play as a few negro Leaguers slowly trickled into the majors the Negro League owners finally decided to assert themselves when I called attorney Kesler in and asked him to gamble with me he agreed he would and he wrote Mr Ricky Mrs Manley was claiming Monty iring contracts and so forth and what did bran Ricky do he just wrote Monty that he didn't want him so you can imagine what the Negro newspapers did to me attorney kesler's first move was to go to the New York Yankees to see if they would take Monty and they still weren't ready to take the Negro players they turned him down so his next move was to go to the Giants and the Giants apparently felt that it was time to get it on the bandwagon and they agreed to give me $5,000 for Monty irvan which I very gladly took to get the Negro papers off of me the golden years of negro baseball were over the fans deserted us the bottom just dropped out of negro baseball completely because they wanted to see the Negro ball players on the white teams and they just deserted us so that that um I begged my husband that first year to quit and he wouldn't he was a born gamber and it was just a little bit more of a gamble for him but the second year he not only realized the handwriting on the wall and he was ready to quit while the younger generation of negro league players won Fame in the major leagues the old Tim has receded Into Obscurity with only their memories it's a good life for us we we happy when we play because we have a chance to make money all year it different when you work in the other team when you work in the factory in some play nobody know you but when you play ball everybody know everybody remember my wife taught school for 50 years and I played ball winter and summer I'd go to Cuba Mexico Florida Play winter ball and uh she would always stay home and work and uh that was the way we uh made our life and without her I'm quite sure I would never been a ball player but she kept me with both feet on the ground she's a great great woman great woman there remained one final chapter to the Negro League story simple Justice required that the Negro leers be recognized for their talents simple Justice required that the very best be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame I was inducted the same year along with Jackie Robin in 1962 it was uh it was time was over time was overdue and they belong there and uh I think that uh it's a shame that it didn't hadn't been able to play in Years Gone by but that's the way our society was at that time I'm glad any of those uh inequities have been corrected and there's no excuse anymore for anyone in this country not to make it as far as they can the commissioner said we met here this morning to make an important announcement said the commit the committee has seen fit to select Josh Gibson from the old negro Lea to the Bish of Hall of Fame said the committee has also seemed fit and when he said it I started sweating a sweat was meeting right on there dropping down on my new suit they the committee o seem fit to select Brook Lennon for the Baseball Hall of Fame that was the greatest moment of my life right there 1971 Satchel pay I would tell you if I knew how old he was but I don't in 1972 Buck Leonard in 1974 cool Papa Bell in 1975 Judy Johnson the memory of those fellas I never never will forget they were quite a team we used to have a lot of fun and then there were some sad days too but uh there was always sunshin in someplace so that's what we look forward to the big days best days a fell in Denver had a had an automobile a brand new automobile it was a page a Grandam page a beautiful thing so he put nine of us in his car and took us down to witch went to witch we played in the tournament and wit but uh who who who won tournament was bismar bismar had s a pig huh double duty redcliff Hilton Smith quinc The Troop had some great ball players on that ball Club see and uh we didn't have a chance to beat them ched Brewer pitched on that ball Club so they won the tournament but got to get home no where to go so I called Mama told him said tell Papa I I want to come home okay was two of us the other youngster from Sarasota and they sent us two tickets train tickets no Money Two Tickets I had 75 cent we took that money and and and took that 75 cent got on the train on the way to Sarasota and the first time we had any food after we left witchar was in uh Chattanooga but anyway we got home when I got home uh I tell you I ate so much my mother cried I slept two days said Mama I'll never leave again never this isn't 35 36 when to start throwing that ball I'm ready to go again hm 1983 that was uh huh I mean it's totally possible that this was shot earlier and then you know they got final funding to to release it uh in 83 um I'm not sure but great stories great footage um James R Jones ties it all together uh thanks for joining us for that and uh so let me say some thank yous thank you uh Rocket Queen for donating via uh ko-fi.com avgeeks that was a very nice donation of coffee uh also School films uh donated that way uh and uh Jeremy donated via the super thanks button so thank you all that money is going to go probably pay for a storage unit rentals I mean we'll buy C coffee for it but with it but it'll be cheap coffee so we can pay for these other things the other thing is this showed up in the mail today and it says surprise free mystery film day I found this one this at an old flea market last weekend I've seen it and well I thought you would enjoy it Robert Patrick so we're going to watch that tomorrow I do not have a copy of this film and I'm very excited to watch it so um there's your dangling for tomorrow thanks again so much for watching and commenting uh very much appreciate your eyeballs and your comments and uh yeah please rewind love each other and I will see you tomorrow on uh what's tomorrow Thursday yeah Thursday everybody take care bye