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Bob Kendrick tells the story of the memorandum from Yankees Co-Owner Larry MacPhail to New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia advising against the breaking of the color barrier in 1945, and how baseball's segregation would come to end just two years later, with help from special narrator Curtis Granderson.
Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nlbmprez
Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - https://nlbm.com
For more on the story of the McPhail Memorandum at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: nlbm.mlblogs.com
Interview with Happy Chandler courtesy of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit https://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org
Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter/X - @nlbmprez
Follow Bob Kendrick on Instagram - @nlbmprez
To support the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, please visit Donate | Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - NLBM.com
See and Support the Dream of the NEW Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Pitch for the Future
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Bob Kendrick tells the story of the memorandum from Yankees Co-Owner Larry MacPhail to New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia advising against the breaking of the color barrier in 1945, and how baseball's segregation would come to end just two years later, with help from special narrator Curtis Granderson.
Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nlbmprez
Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - https://nlbm.com
For more on the story of the McPhail Memorandum at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: nlbm.mlblogs.com
Interview with Happy Chandler courtesy of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, at the University of Kentucky. For more information, visit https://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org
Follow Bob Kendrick on Twitter/X - @nlbmprez
Follow Bob Kendrick on Instagram - @nlbmprez
To support the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, please visit Donate | Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City - NLBM.com
See and Support the Dream of the NEW Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Pitch for the Future
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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