They sure played for fun. They look so happy joking around

Was great at baseball, basketball and a ww2 veteran. LEGEND!👑

The pepper to open was magnificent and so fun to watch. What a treat this film is. Noticed the 387 foot mark in right field. That’s a long way to go for a HR.

My stepfather played with the Clowns. He was Pigg for any of you who were in the Era. I miss my daddy so much.

@halfcenturycollectingcards

Жыл бұрын

Len Pigg?

That fellow has the longest arms I've ever seen.

I love the way he taps the base. His light hearted style of play is a joy to watch.

Goose is multi talented & one of the best magical athletes I’ve ever seen. I love this very rare footage of him & the other legendary baseball performers. Thank you for posting this ⚾️⭐️

So smooth and fluid an amazing athlete, picked everything in the dirt effortlessly. R.I.P. Heavenly BD "Goose"

This is PURE Gold! This is The Harlem Globe Trotters of baseball. What's great is these are gifted ball player AND comedians

Of course I've known Goose Tatum of the Globetrotters but I never knew he played baseball in the Negro leagues! Such a personality!

Played n Evansville Ind with the Clowns 1956.......

And today those seats would b packed

Played with the clowns 1951-56-57 Only one left from the exhibition featuring Jackie Robinson All Stars Tour with the Clowns "1951" Clowns sent several to the majors encluding ...Choo Choo Coleman New York Mets(my room-mate)"56" ...Johnny Wyatt Boston Redsox..Nate Peoples(signed with Dodgers)..and the great Atlanta Braves home run hitter...

@jamalydude

Жыл бұрын

Wait you played with them?!!

@immasoxfanbaby

Жыл бұрын

They were so talented they had fun

@halfcenturycollectingcards

Жыл бұрын

@@jamalydude looks like he did

I've watched this video over and over and it remains wonderful ever time.

Great game of pepper. The best pepper i've ever seen was in films of the 1934 St.Louuis Cardinals. They were unreal with that ball.

@ozvictorian

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Brindley but could the gas house gang do that with a basketball also? NOPE! foh

Great shots of Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

Pure gold!

Phenomenal footage ... that pepper game was epic!!!! The animated baseball play was amazzzzinnggggggggg ! ! ! ! !

I found this in the Guerneville (CA) library on Treasures From American Film Archives and rediscovered it on youtube. It's one of the most remarkable and telling shorts I've ever seen. It totally blows me away. "Telling" because these guys are so cool and in control, so confident and self assured, so balletic it has all the elements! I'm impressed and thrilled that I can now turn people on to it who sederve the best! Gracie!

These cats doing globetrotters shit with a baseball, who in today's game can do shit like this? Unreal, thanks for the video

@edwinmendezforlife

2 жыл бұрын

They don’t allow pepper in ML baseball since the late 30’s everybody use to do it for the laughs with the fans then MLB cracked down on playing around the Diamond

@whitemamba0089

2 ай бұрын

I mean prolly every professional baseball player that wanted to could do this lol still cool tho

@Magnus_Inno

Ай бұрын

​@@whitemamba0089I disagree

@whitemamba0089

Ай бұрын

@@Magnus_Inno I think u could do it honestly with enough practice an u actually have decent ability at sports for hand eye coordination etc it requires

@whitemamba0089

Ай бұрын

@@Magnus_Inno alright I lied I rewatched the vid some of it is down right difficult as shit to do lol but I think u could do some if it

Thank you for sharing this. This was really cool

There's a man clearly enjoying life.

TRULY AMAZING!!!

Amazing I wish I could had played with them.

the opening minutes and a half reminds me of the globetrotters magic circle goose took that from baseball and brought to basketball with the trotters

Film quality is great of Crosley Field and the players (LOL!).

amazing! blacks played the game for love!

Talked gentleman in my home town name Wali Cathcart played with the New York Cubans. He loves to tell stories when he played in the NLB and as a warm up both teams would do something called shadow ball

Biutyfull

Definitely chuckled at 3:27

I love thus channel.

since the origin of the film is unknown does that make it apart of the public domain?

See the great music video tribute to all the many dozens of great Negro Leaguer teams & players - from Rube Foster to young Henry Aaron - who played ball in Hot Springs, Arkansas, from the 1880's to the 1950's : "HOT TIME IN THE HOT CITY" on KZread!

Love this entire footage that brings to life things I've read about the pepper game and the animated game. Pretty sure that's King Tut in the tux tails. Does anyone have any info, photos or video of Specs Beebop? He was a little person that performed in the Negro Leagues. I'm very interested in any thing about the entertainment side of this league.

@cbanks1980

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Terry yeah that's Tut

Actually, they were The Cincinnati Clowns before moving to Indianapolis.

Love the nickname!

Cool!

That's going up on my Facebook wall. That was funny!

7:10 The Clowns actually split their games between Indianapolis and Cincinnati that year; this film was shot in Cincy's Crosley Field, sometime in September 1946, when the Reds were on the road.

This Goose guy looks like his arms are long enough to just stand on home and touch all the bases in order!

globe trotters of baseball?

My grandfather played in the negro leagues......crying as I say this. If anybody knows Lefty Bowe.....that's him

@brolylegion608

28 күн бұрын

Left Hand pitcher

They probably weren't paying attention, sad for them.

GOOSE!!!!!!

He this guy the "Medow Lark Lemon" of the league?

anybody know who did this version of "take me out to the ballgame?"

Goose was a t4ip.

Oh Pastor Walker I need an autograph...Please....I'm being serious I collect autographs. Just to tell you I have a few AAGPBL players, Duke Snider, and Robin Roberts signatures. I'd love to add yours. Thanks!

When the bases were indeed “bag” s

@jcoburn3590

3 жыл бұрын

Right! ...and you come out to warmups with a lit cigar lol. Oh, the times!

@walterkoziol3822

3 жыл бұрын

And now you know where and how when an commentator says it's a three bagger or a two bagger comes from.

I get a kick out of the umps they don't seem too amused

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sadly that Jim Crow era encouraged such Step & Fetchit style minstrel vaudeville shows instead of these Gents simply being accepted to showcase their Athletic Baseball Skills

@berachtdorian6191

Жыл бұрын

Exhibitions like those would probably do as much for the MLB's popularity as they did for the NBA's popularity. They're fun! Quite frankly, they make me want to go out and try them.

@HeadCoachKev

Жыл бұрын

@@berachtdorian6191 have you watched the Savanna Bananas' highlights? They're making Baseball Fun Again

@berachtdorian6191

Жыл бұрын

@@HeadCoachKev I will. Thanks for the suggestion.👍

Who gave this video dislikes?

@jillkjv3816

2 жыл бұрын

People with no sense of humor.

We're the G.O.A.T., the Aboriginal Americans, the first inhabitant of the land, did you know that the richest woman in the world lived in KC, her name was Sarah Rector, look it up, her family members are still living, where did her wealth go

The Mexican baseball league's legacy on the U.S. and the relation with black players: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4F7j6OydrLYitY.html

Truely amazing to watch but I guess this was the only way to keep small minded people feeling secure that their status was not being threatened by the other group. Clowns are not a threat. but lets still remain segregated.

Sad times for the BLACK MAN!

@jillkjv3816

2 жыл бұрын

They don't look sad.

@areguapiri

2 жыл бұрын

@@jillkjv3816 Trust me, it was a brutal day-to-day life for ALL black people back then, except when they got together for fun.

@jillkjv3816

2 жыл бұрын

@@areguapiri If it was that brutal there would not have been any opportunity to have any fun at all.

@lloydkline1518

Жыл бұрын

Negro baseball league great black.history ;; like harlem grobetritter of basketball

@FreeeJ

Жыл бұрын

@@jillkjv3816 if you honestly believe the things you are saying you must have zero education on history. through every civilization and era on this planet people have took times to entertain there selves. some of the saddest people were also great comedians i mean even slaves thorough all eras and races played games and sung songs what did you think they just sat around and cried all day or something?

i wonder what white people thought about this back then.

@Haroldbeavis1969

5 жыл бұрын

Bill Pierce they thought “Aren’t they funny! Too bad theyre not good enough to play with the white fellas.” That’s what they told themselves anyway.

@latouselatrec

5 жыл бұрын

Haroldbeavis1969 oh bullshit you really don't know what your talking about. The white people flocked to these games. And the major leaquers knèw they were they were just as good as theirselves

@areguapiri

2 жыл бұрын

White people were the reason this was happening back then.