Bedford & Sullivan Podcast: For The Record with Negro Leagues Historian Phil Dixon

From the desk: A SAM MAXWELL PRODUCTION

Brooklyn Trolley Blogger Meets Negro League Man

Sam Maxwell handed me the keys to the podcast.  I again had the privilege of speaking with 

Negro Leagues historian, author, public speaker, and Kansas City native

Phil S. Dixon 

DISCUSSION: The office of MLB officially recognizes Negro Leagues as Major League, and will incorporate player stats spanning 1920 through 1948 into the baseball record.  But what does that really mean?  We end with a brief history of the Cuban X Giants.

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ICYMI: My Brooklyn Trolley Blogger's 100th-anniversary celebration of the original Negro National League founded by Rube Foster; naturally, I focused on the New York City scene, but with particular attention paid to Negro Leagues games played at Ebbets Field.

• Baseball's Last Games at Ebbets Field: Roy Campanella's Brooklyn Stars
• Negro Leagues Baseball at Ebbets Field: The Brooklyn Brown Dodgers
• A Team Grows in Harlem: The New York Lincoln Giants
• The Bacharach Giants, Ebbets Field, and the Great Clash of 1920
• On Monti Irvin: A New Jersey Titan and New York Giant
• Straight Talk With William "Judy" Johnson
• Pulling "Double Duty" at Ebbets Field: Ted Radcliffe
• Brooklyn To Newark, Part I: Negro National League Eagles Take Flight
• Brooklyn To Newark, Part II: Where Eagles Dare
• Dem Barnstormers: The Brooklyn Royal Giants