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They won't let Negro players stay here overnight, and they're gettin' their mob together. That's why we're leaving'. We'll try the next town.

9 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:13:52 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And it looked like they was waving' at him.

- Say, these guys got know me already. They're waving' at me.

- Yeah, they're waving' at you all right.

- Let me roll down the window. I'll wave back.

- Keep the window up and sit back in the car!

- What's wrong with answering a friendly wave?

- A friendly wave! That's the town's white supremacy committee!

- They won't let Negro players stay here overnight, and they're gettin' their mob together. That's why we're leaving'. We'll try the next town.

- Yeah, the ump was still callin' em wrong.

- But this Robinson ain't easy to strike out.

- That ghostly umpire kept callin' two strikes, but this Robinson usually got a hold of the third one, like that time in Florida.

- When he hit a long line drive into center field! It's goin' - goin' - it smacks against the center field wall.

- Robinson's rounding' first, second, he's crossing' third, he's gonna try to stretch it into a homer!

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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