Mr. Moore featured on TBS Storyline (excerpt) (http://tbsstoryline.com/)
In April 2008, two students from Chamblee Charter High School, Damek Anderson and Henry Jacobs, interviewed Mr. Moore (91 years old) at his home. See video.
Topics discussed:
- Growing up in Atlanta
- Childhood heroes
- Early days in baseball
- Big break in 1935
- Newark to Atlanta
- Baltimore in 1939
- Life in the Negro Leagues
- Facing Satchel Paige
- Baltimore Elite’s “Million Dollar Infield”
- Roy Campanella
- Retiring from baseball in 1948
- Jackie Robinson
- Cool Papa Bell & Josh Gibson
- Getting His Nickname
- Lessons learned about playing the game
- Belated Recognition from Major League Baseball
- Playing in Yankee Stadium
- College players in the Negro Leagues
Related Links
Negro League Baseball Players Association
http://www.nlbpa.com/
Pitch Black’s Negro Leaguer of the Month (July 2000)
http://www.pitchblackbaseball.com/nlotmredmoore.html
Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum
http://www.coe.ksu.edu/nlbemuseum/history/players/moore.html
Author and Historian Larry Lester’s Website
http://www.larrylester42.com/
Wikipedia on Negro Leagues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_League
Atlanta Black Crackers
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1966
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Black_Crackers
http://www.nlbpa.com/atlanta_black_crackers.html
Baltimore Elite Giants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Elite_Giants
http://www.nlbpa.com/baltimore_elite_giants.html
Newark Eagles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Eagles
http://www.nlbpa.com/newark_eagles.html
USA Today sports edition on Yankee Stadium
Red Moore is featured in a story about his inside-the-park homerun at Yankee Stadium in a special USA Today sports edition on the stadium’s history. Copies of the issue are for sale at http://www.usatodayservice.com/yankeestadium/
See the March 2007
Atlanta Magazine for an
extensive feature profile
by Bill Banks (banks-atlmag0307)
Fellow Negro Leaguer Websites
Roy Campanella
http://www.roycampanella.com
Leon Day
http://www.leondayfoundation.org/
Josh Gibson
http://www.joshgibson.org/
Reginald Howard
http://www.toostrong.net/howard/
Monte Irvin
http://www.cmgww.com/baseball/irvin/
Buck Leonard
http://www.buckleonard.org/
John Henry “Pop” Lloyd
http://www.popsballyard.org/
Minnie Minoso
http://minoso.com/
Satchel Paige
http://www.satchelpaige.com
Jackie Robinson
http://www.jackierobinson.com/
Ted Toles
http://www.tedtolesjr.com/index.html
Smokey Joe Williams Blog
http://cyclonejoe.blogspot.com/