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Women in sports including women who played baseball in the negro leaks in the 1950s and women who participated in olympic sports. This interview was recorded at the historical meeting. Let me begin with yearbook expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . So many things. I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find. It was not any archive labeled this is a history of black women in sports. I would say i got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro s. Gues in 195...

[inaudible conversations] please welcome Doris Kearns Goodwin and bud selig. [applause] hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here with my friend, the commissioner, bud selig. I now realize it was a quarter of a century ago, i came to milwaukee, and read no ordinary time about frank and roosevelt. He wanted me to talk about baseball. Always that push and pull. What is happening in baseball, what is happening in the country, we have a great relationship, we became great friends with each others families and went to the hall of fame games together, went to japan for the opening day of the red so...

2017 that was kind of an ode to the first africanamerican president , hence the title the fierce 44. We had this idea that lets do kind of an homage to inarguably the greatest achievement for africanamericans to become president , and who else should be on that list . And so we did a list, it was Interactive Digital project, and it was wellreceived, highly debated, and then hard hard court publish it this saying you turn into into a Childrens Book because there are not a lot of africanamerican biographies, a general a was that genre that was popular issue childrens biography questions and so w...

I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request t...

I thought, hmm, if theres a lot of black girls and women in the mid century trying to play baseball maybe theres a longer history here. Thats what set me out to find some of the stories in the book that take us from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, and looking at black women and sporting history in the 20th century. Two names, one quite familiar, hank arron and stony stone . Yeah. Again, like i said, those baseball women who i stumbled upon, they were brought in at the kind of fall of the negro leagues. The negro leagues had been a huge institution in the black community. It provided ...