Comedian Roy Wood Jr. takes a break from stand up to sit down with historians and former Negro League players in the new NPR podcast "Road to Rickwood."

Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.

Minor league pitcher Devin Sweet recently had a brush with the majors at a time when only six percent of Major League Baseball players are Black. He talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about his father's efforts to build a baseball community for him and other Black kids in their Greensboro neighborhood.

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