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The Chicago White Sox
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are in the middle of a winning season.
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I will compromise
everything for some cash.
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This is a bad sign. I'm
already using two hands.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker was like,
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I'm about to be the first
black dude to ever play
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in major league baseball.
This ain't a movie.
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This is real life.
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Marge and Helen Callaghan
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are fucking knocking this
shit out of the park.
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What's up motherfucker?
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This is harder now than it was earlier.
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[PATRIOTIC MUSIC]
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- Synced & corrected by MementMori -
-- www.addic7ed.com --
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[SPORTY MUSIC]
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Nobody should play baseball
when they're drunk.
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We're not playing baseball.
We're playing catch.
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Yeah, I know, but...
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[LAUGHING]
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Gloves don't catch.
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- That's a great point.
- Yeah, thanks.
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I read about that on whogivesashit.org.
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You're a piece of shit. [LAUGHING]
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- [BALL THUDS]
- [GROANS AND LAUGHS]
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Batter up.
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Mm-hmm.
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Hello, I am Katie Nolan,
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and this is the story of the Blackhawks.
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Blackhawks?
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You wanna do "Black Hawk Down"?
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- Maybe.
- I feel, like, we should do...
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Should we do the baseball thing instead,
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and then maybe next time
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- we'll do "Black Hawk Down."
- Yeah, fuck that, yeah.
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God bless Josh Hartnett though.
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Hello, I'm Katie Nolan,
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and this is the Black Sox scandal.
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[OLD TIMEY MUSIC]
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Our story begins in 1919,
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exactly 100 years ago.
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The Chicago White Sox
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are in the middle of a winning season.
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They're owner, Charles Comiskey,
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is a piece of shit.
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He's making a bunch of money.
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He hasn't even paid for their
laundering of their uniforms.
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The players are like, this is bullshit.
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We're playing good baseball,
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and we should be paid more money
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because we're people
and we have families.
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So the... the players are
being fucked by ownership,
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and they were pissed.
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So Chick Gandil, first baseman,
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he's like, look, I'm towards
the end of my career.
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I want to make a bunch of money,
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and I can't make a bunch of money
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because I'm not getting paid it.
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So Arnold Rothstein,
who was a mob dude...
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Arnold Rothstein approaches
him and he says,
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Hey, kid,
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I want to make money.
You want to make money.
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You play games for a living.
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I will pay you moneys
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and you will throw the World Series.
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And he's like, that's it?
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That's so easy. I can lose.
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And so Rothstein said,
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look, I'm glad you're on the team,
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but one person is not enough
to throw a baseball game.
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We're gonna need a lot of other people.
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Maybe, like, eight people?
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So he called a meeting
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with a bunch of players on the team.
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Now, that included Eddie Cicotte,
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Lefty Williams, and then
Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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And so Chick Gandil, he's like,
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look, everybody, I met this dude.
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He will give us $100,000
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if we lose the World Series.
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And a lot of them were like,
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uh, what? I love baseball.
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All I've ever done is devoted
my life to baseball.
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And Chick's like, yeah, no, I get it,
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but we can make more money losing
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than we will earn notoriety winning.
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So... the guys like,
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I will compromise
everything for some cash.
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So the players leave that meeting,
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and they recruited a bunch
of dudes within the team.
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So they have eight people.
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I wanna bring the Mic down to my face.
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[LAUGHS]
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We get to the point where
they get to the World Series.
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Chicago White Sox
versus Cincinnati Reds.
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Game one, best of nine.
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The White Sox, heavily favored,
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and Eddie Cicotte takes the mound.
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So the signal between
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the players and the gambling guy
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was that Eddie would hit
the very first batter.
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He winds up, he throws his first pitch,
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and it's a perfect strike.
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He throws it right down the middle,
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and everyone's like,
wait, what the fuck?
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I thought we were gonna throw the game.
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Second pitch, winds up, throws it.
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Thunk. Hits the batter,
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and so everybody knows, oh, it's on.
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So the game goes on and on and on.
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Eddie throws terrible pitches.
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They lose 9-1.
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Holy shit.
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Papers come out the next day, Derek.
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[GIGGLES] And they're like,
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what?
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But we got to go on to game two.
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Throughout the series, they keep losing.
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Whoopsies, I should have
probably caught that.
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And then they were like,
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oh, I wish I could throw
that to the plate,
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but I can only throw it to the pitcher.
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Oh, a line drive. [WIMPY SCREAM]
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Whoopsies.
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And Chick Gandil was like,
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I'm gonna get this.
I got it. I got it. I got it.
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And he waved everybody off,
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and then instead he just didn't got it.
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[LAUGHS]
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I'm getting too drunk to
be able to maintain...
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You're okay. We're just
gonna finish that story.
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So the series is 4-1.
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Lefty Williams says,
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hey, we have not received any payments.
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We're not gonna keep throwing
our legacy for nothing.
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Let's go up it... on the baseball field.
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Let's come from behind
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and win this World Series!
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Yeah!
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So for the next few games
they're, like, trying.
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They're winning, then the night before
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the eighth game of the series
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Arnold Rothstein and his associates
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visited Lefty Williams
in his hotel room.
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Rothstein says,
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if by the first inning
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it isn't obvious we're gonna lose,
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I'll murder your wife.
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And Lefty Williams was like, I'm shook.
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So game eight, Lefty goes out,
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he's the starting pitcher, and he sucks.
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Real bad. Like, on purpose bad,
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and they end up losing 10 to 5,
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and that's it. The World Series is over
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and Cincinnati has won.
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People were shocked,
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and then there started
to be these rumors.
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People are like, uh...
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it felt fixed.
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And the press labels the
White Sox the Black Sox.
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Why?
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It's black mark.
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It's bad.
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- Forever.
- [LAUGHS]
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So there's a grand jury investigation,
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and Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe
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both break down in front
of the grand jury.
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And he said, yup, [SLAP
RESOUNDS] I did it.
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I have no family. [SLAP RESOUNDS]
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I didn't make enough
money. [SLAP RESOUNDS]
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Is your hand okay when you did that?
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[SLAP RESOUNDS]
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Ow, don't do that.
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- [SLAP RESOUNDS]
- Hey, hey, hey.
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[SLAP RESOUNDS]
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Shoeless Joe was like,
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I am Shoeless Joe Jackson
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and I'm not wearing any shoes!
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[LAUGHS]
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This is what led to the very
first commissioner of baseball.
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He had the most first name ever.
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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He comes out and he's like,
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we won't stand for no cheaters,
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and so all those eight men
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involved in the Black Sox scandal,
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banned from baseball for life.
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And so now there's no more cheaters left
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in major league baseball,
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except all the cheaters
that existed after that.
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I have no shoes on.
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- Boop.
- [MIC THUDS]
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Do you get it?
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It's black socks.
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[LAUGHS]
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[OLD TIMEY MUSIC]
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All right, let's do a
little cheers to baseball.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker.
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Let's do it.
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- [SIGHS]
- [WINCES AND LAUGHS]
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- Hoo, boy.
- Oh, yeah.
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It's a good feeling, right?
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- When you're insides...
- You seen this shit?
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Oh, that swish, swish, bish, shit?
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I can't... I can do a couple.
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[LAUGHING] Ow!
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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I hit myself in the back,
and then also hit the wall.
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Oh, shit. Big man got moves.
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[LAUGHS]
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I can't do it. I'm sweating.
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[LAUGHS]
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- Yeah, I'm hot as hell.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
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Hello,
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I'm Carl Tart, and we're
about to talk about
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the first black player
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to integrate major league baseball.
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Oh, Jackie Robinson.
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No,
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Moses Fleetwood Walker.
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It's 1882.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
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is a student at Oberlin College,
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and he's like, I'm studying law.
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I'm reading all these
books. This is wrong.
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This is good. This is
bad. This is hell yeah.
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This is hell no,
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but something's tearing at my heart.
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I gotta play baseball.
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I'm leaving college to do this,
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so it better be a good idea.
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So he dips. He joins
the minor league team
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Toledo Blue Stockings.
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So Fleet is playing catcher,
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but, at this point,
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catchers weren't playing with mitts.
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He's playing with his bare hands.
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That shit is some extra shit.
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He's killing it, though.
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So it's May 1st, 1884,
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and it's opening day.
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The Toledo Blue Stockings get
invited to the newly formed
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American League. They were like,
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congratulations, white dudes and Moses,
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welcome to major league baseball.
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Moses is like,
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I'm about to be the first black dude
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to ever play in major league baseball.
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This is what I wanted to do.
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This is why left law... law...
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law school and nobody
can tell me different.
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I'm about to go out here
and swing these bats,
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catch these balls, hit these balls,
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swing these bats.
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This is 1884. Think about this shit.
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This is 17 years removed from slavery.
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Like, 17 years.
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Like, slavery can't drink yet.
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Slavery can't fight in the war yet.
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If you text slavery a
picture of your meat,
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you going to jail.
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[BOTH LAUGHING]
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That's good. Let's move on.
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So he's playing, but he's experiencing
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all kind of racism on the road.
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He's walking up to
hotels and they're like,
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you can't sleep here.
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Your team can sleep team,
but you can't sleep here.
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And he's like, what,
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how can I not sleep here?
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Like, he's sleeping on park benches
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as a major league baseball player.
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Fans were terrible. They're like,
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hold up, we didn't come to see
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no black people on this field.
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We came to see our thoroughbred whites.
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And then they get to Richmond, Virginia.
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The manager of the Toledo Blue Stockings
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gets a letter, and so he
runs to Fleet's room,
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which Fleet's room is the
park bench across the street.
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- [LAUGHS]
- And he gets over there,
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he kicks the bench a couple times,
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shakes him, Fleet, wake up, Fleet.
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[GASPING] What?
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He goes, man, you can't
play the game tomorrow.
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I just got a letter.
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75 dudes are gonna be outside
waiting to beat your ass.
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You got to not play tomorrow.
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Moses was like, I ain't taking no risks.
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If it is flake, I ain't... I ain't...
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Fake. Flake.
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- If it is frosted flakes.
- [LAUGHS]
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Oh, my God.
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Now I'm drunk, and this is
supposed to be your show.
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- Yeah.
- Get it.
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[BOTH LAUGHING]
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So he doesn't play that game.
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He just sits out.
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So then they go to play against
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the Chicago White Stockings.
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Their manager, his name is Cap Anson,
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and Cap Anson is like,
y'all jersey's is clean,
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and his jersey's clean too,
but his face is black.
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I'm not playing with him.
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And so manager from the
Blue Stockings Toledo
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goes over to Cap and is like,
yo, Cap, we have to play.
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Either you gonna take this L,
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or we gonna play.
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And Cap was like, [GROANING]
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[GROWLING AND GROANING]
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I don't want to lose. All right, fine.
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I'll play against black dude this time,
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but I'll be back.
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And so manager of the Blue Stockings
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goes back over to Fleet
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and he's like, Fleet, I
know you're resting today,
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but you gotta play.
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He's like, what? Look at my hands.
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My hands is the size
of a doughnut factory.
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- [LAUGHS]
- And he's like,
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you need to play because they said
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they weren't gonna play
you because you're black.
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He's like, what? Hold up.
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[SCOFFS] Well, I'm about to play today.
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They must have thought wrong,
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because I'm about to be
on that field today.
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My name is Fleet and I'm
about to be on my feet
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and bending my knees
because I'm a catcher.
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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So...
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oh, shit.
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- We got it. We good.
- All right, we do it.
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So to make things worse
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he's got a pitcher named Tony Mullane.
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He's like, I'm not even
pitching real to this dude.
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I'm pitching what I want to pitch.
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Fleet calls slider, he throws a curve.
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Fleet calls curve, he
throws a knuckle slide,
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00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,840
but Fleet was so good
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that he had the media on his nuts.
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00:12:55,380 --> 00:12:57,310
"The Toledo Blade" was like,
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Fleet is the most valuable
player at catcher, at bat,
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than any other player.
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This is crazy that they're
saying this about a black dude
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who's playing in major league baseball.
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We shouldn't have no black
people on this team.
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00:13:10,140 --> 00:13:11,730
I don't want to play with them.
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Mullane has the chance there
to be the white savior
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from every movie about race... [LAUGHS]
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00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,140
Yeah, the white savior,
but this ain't a movie.
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- This is real life.
- [LAUGHS]
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00:13:22,310 --> 00:13:25,510
So it's... it's 1987.
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00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:26,640
No, it's not.
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It's 1887 and once again
he gets to Chicago
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and his old friend there
is waiting to greet him.
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And Cap was like, well, now I got
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a whole group of people
who don't fuck with you.
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And they kick him out of the game.
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Major league baseball said,
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black people ain't gonna
play in this shit
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for a long-ass time.
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00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,330
So after that he's like,
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00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,100
this racism shit is too hard.
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00:13:51,170 --> 00:13:53,540
I'm going back to studying
and inventing shit.
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00:13:53,610 --> 00:13:55,940
So, basically, when Fleet left the game
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that ban lasted for 63 years
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00:14:00,180 --> 00:14:03,280
until Jackie Robinson
gets put in the pros.
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00:14:03,350 --> 00:14:06,820
What would you say the
moral of this story is?
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If you think got a hero,
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research that hero,
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00:14:11,220 --> 00:14:13,490
and know who came before that hero
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and paved the way for that hero.
374
00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:16,720
That was all great.
375
00:14:16,730 --> 00:14:18,660
Can we just do it one more
time with your eyes open?
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00:14:18,730 --> 00:14:21,480
[BOTH LAUGHING]
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00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,100
Did you play baseball growing up?
378
00:14:25,150 --> 00:14:28,660
No, not at all. I did
track and field sprints.
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00:14:28,690 --> 00:14:29,920
- Really?
- Yeah.
380
00:14:29,990 --> 00:14:31,470
Sprints, hurdles, for a little bit,
381
00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:32,739
but I would leap over them.
382
00:14:32,740 --> 00:14:35,510
You have to really, like,
whip your leg back.
383
00:14:35,580 --> 00:14:36,650
What is the kick?
384
00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:37,820
You have to like...
385
00:14:39,550 --> 00:14:41,060
One leg out first, whip down.
386
00:14:42,750 --> 00:14:44,550
[GROANS] Ow!
387
00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:47,690
- Ow.
- [LAUGHING]
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00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,160
Tonight... [LAUGHS]
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00:14:50,230 --> 00:14:52,520
Ai, my name is Anais Fairweather,
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00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,460
and tonight I'm gonna
tell you the story,
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00:14:55,530 --> 00:15:00,040
the true story behind "A
League of Their Own."
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- Cheers.
- Cheers.
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00:15:02,780 --> 00:15:05,910
We start our story with
Marge and Helen Callaghan,
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two sisters growing up
in Vancouver, Canada.
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These two women are natural athletes.
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00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,879
They're so fuck sick and tight,
397
00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:14,920
and they're like,
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00:15:14,930 --> 00:15:18,750
yeah, we joined a fast-pitch
softball league together.
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00:15:18,820 --> 00:15:22,460
Okay, so now we're gonna fast
forward a little bit to 1942.
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We're in the midst of World War 2,
401
00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,830
and the draft is going on full force.
402
00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:31,580
Now this fucking guy, the
commissioner of the MLB,
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00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,000
Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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00:15:34,070 --> 00:15:35,340
[GROANS]
405
00:15:35,410 --> 00:15:36,970
- I hate saying that name.
- [LAUGHS]
406
00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:38,170
He's like,
407
00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,640
I'm the n?mero uno commissioner
408
00:15:40,710 --> 00:15:44,210
of major league and
minor league baseball,
409
00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,550
and while I'm calling the shots,
410
00:15:46,570 --> 00:15:49,980
everyone's being fucking
drafted into World War 2.
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00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,940
So he's like, okay, I'll
put my big boy pants on.
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00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,220
I'ma figure this out.
413
00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,990
He calls Philip K. Wrigley.
414
00:15:55,060 --> 00:15:58,360
Philip K. Wrigley is, like,
chomp, chomp, hello?
415
00:15:58,430 --> 00:16:00,860
And Kenesaw Mountain Landis is like,
416
00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:03,900
oh, my man, 3,000 minor league players,
417
00:16:03,970 --> 00:16:06,300
major league players are gone to war.
418
00:16:06,370 --> 00:16:08,120
So Philip K. Wrigley's like,
419
00:16:08,140 --> 00:16:10,300
okay, I've got an idea for you.
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00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:12,470
We are gonna capitalize
421
00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:16,110
on the popularity of women softball.
422
00:16:16,180 --> 00:16:17,710
Badass women.
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00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:20,580
And it's, like, the '40s, right?
424
00:16:20,650 --> 00:16:23,580
That's... that's a
crazy time to do this.
425
00:16:23,650 --> 00:16:28,020
So Philip K. Wrigley and
his buddy, Ken Sells,
426
00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,890
go out scouting all
throughout the Midwest.
427
00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,530
And lo and behold, who did they run into
428
00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,460
but Helen and Marge Callaghan.
429
00:16:35,530 --> 00:16:36,730
What are they doing there?
430
00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,530
They are playing fast-pitch softball,
431
00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,270
and Helen and Marge are like,
432
00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,470
uh, we are dominating this field.
433
00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:50,940
Philip and Ken run out to this.
434
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,079
They run out to the
field and they're like,
435
00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,480
you, the both of you, we need you both.
436
00:16:55,550 --> 00:16:57,280
You got to be on our fucking team.
437
00:16:57,340 --> 00:17:00,550
And they sign on the
dotted line at $75 a week.
438
00:17:00,620 --> 00:17:03,690
So they're both on the
Minneapolis Marionettes.
439
00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:08,030
- [BOTH LAUGH]
- No, Millerettes.
440
00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:10,640
So Marge and Helen are like,
441
00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,180
we're on this team,
this is fucking tight.
442
00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,900
They're playing doubleheaders,
443
00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,240
in, like, 115 degree weather,
444
00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:19,160
and Philip K. Wrigley's like,
445
00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,510
I know how to sell a product,
446
00:17:20,570 --> 00:17:24,340
and I need these women
to look like women.
447
00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:27,890
These chaperons are like,
I am going to make sure
448
00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:30,180
that their hair is curled,
their lipstick is on,
449
00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,660
their makeup is fully done,
450
00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,450
their skirts are ironed
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00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,620
before they head out onto the field.
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00:17:35,690 --> 00:17:38,320
People are full to watch these women
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00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:40,260
in these adorable dresses
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00:17:40,330 --> 00:17:42,430
play fucking baseball like men.
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00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,220
And Marge Callaghan, Helen Callaghan,
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00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,730
are fucking knocking this
shit outta the park.
457
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,330
Women are stealing bases.
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00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,870
They're like, what's up, motherfucker?
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00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:55,110
[LAUGHS]
460
00:17:55,180 --> 00:17:58,940
I don't know why that's
funny, but it's funny.
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00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,720
[BOTH LAUGHING]
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00:18:03,780 --> 00:18:07,120
Now, Philip K. Wrigley looks
at this and he's like,
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00:18:07,190 --> 00:18:09,890
these aren't women playing baseball.
464
00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,090
These are fucking baseball players.
465
00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,690
Fuck yeah, dude!
466
00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,500
It's so badass, right?
467
00:18:19,570 --> 00:18:23,230
[ICE JINGLING]
468
00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:24,870
This is my seventh inning stretch.
469
00:18:24,940 --> 00:18:26,540
This is mine.
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00:18:26,610 --> 00:18:28,210
[BOTH LAUGH]
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00:18:31,910 --> 00:18:34,340
All right, let's play ball.
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00:18:34,410 --> 00:18:36,240
Yeah, okay.
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00:18:36,420 --> 00:18:42,680
So 1945 comes, right? And
World War 2 is ending.
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00:18:42,890 --> 00:18:45,820
Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams,
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00:18:45,890 --> 00:18:49,000
the major, minor league
players come back
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00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:51,380
and they're like, hi, everybody, yeah,
477
00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,530
we've been at fucking
war. It's terrible.
478
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,080
We're ready to hit some balls.
479
00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,570
So they... they... and
it ends up fizzling out.
480
00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,800
30 years passes,
481
00:19:01,870 --> 00:19:05,520
and this story is forgotten until 1985.
482
00:19:05,550 --> 00:19:09,680
There was a reunion,
Helen Callan-delays.
483
00:19:09,750 --> 00:19:10,790
[LAUGHS]
484
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,100
This is harder now than it was earlier.
485
00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,480
But you're still doing it.
486
00:19:15,550 --> 00:19:20,660
Kelly hand-delay, Helen's
oldest son, was like,
487
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,340
I'm gonna fucking record this shit.
488
00:19:23,380 --> 00:19:25,290
He whips his out his camcorder,
489
00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,400
and all these old ladies
are fucking playing ball
490
00:19:29,470 --> 00:19:32,870
like they did back in the fucking '40s.
491
00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:35,340
Kelly Candaele creates
492
00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:37,100
"A League of Their Own" documentary.
493
00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:38,860
it's a huge fucking deal.
494
00:19:38,930 --> 00:19:41,630
Fucking Penny Marshall
sees this documentary.
495
00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:43,630
She's like, what the fuck?
496
00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:46,800
I didn't know this shit
existed in history.
497
00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:51,370
Oh, maybe I should make a
movie about this story
498
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:57,610
because it's important
for women of all ages.
499
00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,740
And if it wasn't for "A
League of Their Own,"
500
00:20:00,770 --> 00:20:03,210
nobody would have ever known
501
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,450
that women can throw a
ball like the fucking men.
502
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,460
[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC]
503
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,550
504
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,620
What you got?
505
00:20:13,690 --> 00:20:16,130
I got a couple slushies.
506
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,100
Ready?
507
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:19,660
Lemon's up.
508
00:20:19,730 --> 00:20:22,480
Hear that call.
509
00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:28,440
- Oh!
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
510
00:20:28,510 --> 00:20:31,240
[SCREAMS]
511
00:20:31,310 --> 00:20:33,200
God, that smashed in my mouth.
512
00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:34,280
It tasted good.
513
00:20:34,350 --> 00:20:37,280
[PATRIOTIC MUSIC]
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