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.