The Red Black Green Baseball Podcast - The Red Black Green Baseball Podcast's second episode is centered around my conversation with Shakeia Taylor is an avid baseball historian and freelance columnist from Youngstown, Ohio. Her main interests are the Negro Leagues and women in baseball, while also being a highly active advocate for diversity in sports journalism. As one of the best baseball writers today, her emotion-evoking prose writing has helped shine the light on race and culture in baseball. A 2021 winner of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Analytics Conference Research Award and Associated Press Sports Editors Award, her powerful writing has made appearances across many platforms and has been featured on SB Nation, FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, MLB dot com, and more.

0:00 - Origin Story & Background

7:30 - How She Got Into Writing About Baseball

10:00 - Being Black In Sports Media

21:00 - Supporting The Youth In Baseball

24:00 - The Intersection of History & Baseball

28:00 - Monthly SABR Event News

Shakeia's Writing: https://www.hishakeia.com

Shakeia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/curlyfro

Pat's Writing: https://www.clippings.me/tangibleuno

Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tangible_uno

 

 

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