WBUR.ORG
Support WBUR Receive e-Newsletter


5/11/2008





  [rss v1.00]

Public Radio
International
   HOME  »  SHOW PAGE  »  STORY

Theodore "Double Duty" Radcliffe signs a baseball bat back in 2000. (AP)
Negro League Legend Dies
Story aired: Friday, August 12, 2005



Theodore Radcliffe was born in Mobile, Alabama in July of 1902 and moved to Chicago after World War I. He went on to play for more than a dozen Negro leagues between 1928 and 1950. Toward the end of his life, Ted Radcliffe lived in a retirement home near Comiskey Park in Chicago. Only a Game's Bill Littlefield spoke with Radcliffe at the ballpark.

Guests:


Bill Littlefield, Only A Game


  RELATED STORIES

Game Seven Apocalypse
Only A Game (12/27/2003)

Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball
Only A Game (03/20/2004)

Curses? We Don't Need No Stinking Curses!
Only A Game (10/11/2003)

Baseball Losers
Only A Game (07/07/2001)

Sandy Koufax
Only A Game (10/12/2002)
Related stories list is auto-generated using
HP TopicSim technology

In order to listen to our archived recordings, you must use the Real Audio Player, available for free at www.real.com





Home · Contact · About · Stations · Order a Tape · Show Archives · Forum · Support H&N
Copyright ©2008 Trustees of Boston University and WBUR