The home team if they dont win its a shame for its one, two, three strikes youre out at the old ballgame mr. Raffertyosaki good morning. We have talked about a lot of things. We talked about gender, we talked about sports. Happens to be baseball. That is probably why i signed the deal. But we are talking about social forces. And baseball happens to be one of the greatest social forces, in my opinion, in American Society. The institution of baseball, the game, what it represents for instance, when people see the number 42, what did they think . What do they feel . What do they believe . Why was it retired throughout baseball in 1997 . No man will wear this number again. What did it mean for Jackie Robinson, for blacks across the u. S. To watch him steal home in the world series . Battery of whitey ford and give bu borough, two and yogi era, two future hall of famers. He stole home. To put this in perspective, during the 2000 majorleague season, 2293 times someone stole a base. Only 18 t
cause its root, root, root for the home team if they dont win its a shame for its one, two, three strikes youre out ballgamed mr. Raffertyosaki good how is everyone . Good. Good. We have talked about a lot of things. We have talked about religion, we have talked about gender, we started going into sports. It is no lie, my favorite happens to be baseball. That is probably why i signed this deal. But we are talking about social forces. And baseball happens to be one of the greatest social forces, in my opinion, in american society. The institution of baseball, the game, what it represents for instance, when people see the number 42, what did they think . What do they feel . What do they believe . Why was it retired throughout baseball in 1997 . No man will wear this number again. What did it mean for Jackie Robinson, for blacks across the the 1955 world series . This was against the great battery, to future hall of famers. He stole home. To put this in perspective, during the 2000 majorl
cause its root, root, root for the home team if they dont win its a shame for its one, two, three strikes youre out ballgamed mr. Raffertyosaki good how is everyone . Good. Good. We have talked about a lot of things. We have talked about religion, we have talked about gender, we started going into sports. It is no lie, my favorite happens to be baseball. That is probably why i signed this deal. But we are talking about social forces. And baseball happens to be one of the greatest social forces, in my opinion, in american society. The institution of baseball, the game, what it represents for instance, when people see the number 42, what did they think . What do they feel . What do they believe . Why was it retired throughout baseball in 1997 . No man will wear this number again. What did it mean for Jackie Robinson, for blacks across the the 1955 world series . This was against the great battery, to future hall of famers. He stole home. To put this in perspective, during the 2000 majorl
President ial library and museum hosted this event. First, i want to say good afternoon and thank some people. Of course tim for letting me come and speak to you today. And of course samantha, who handled a lot of the publicity for the event. She did just a wonderful job. There was also a local Radio Station who did a great interview and between newspaper and radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit. I want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you why we are here. The kansas city monarchs were a Negro League Baseball team. Perhaps most of you have heard of them. Some of the great players maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige. Organized 1920, 1920 four and one the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. Way torying to figure a honor these brave men who purely play for the love of the game because they did not make great salaries back then. I decided i was going to visit 90 cities to commem
So when he actually when he left the white house in early 53, he had had to take a loan out from a bank in washington to help make ends meet, and he also refused to commercialize the presidency. He would not take lucrative speaking fees. He would not sit on corporate boards, that sort of thing. Im glad the president s still dont do that. So anyway, he was really kind of a poor guy. He was the last president to become a regular citizen again in a way, and so on this trip they stayed at hotels, and they ate at roadside diners, and they crashed with friends in indianapolis one night, and so its kind of the story of this trip and also how being an expresident has changed. Yeah, they came to new york. They actually stayed at the waldorf in new york for four nights, and i was curious how they could afford that, and then harry saved all his correspondence and at the Truman Library i found a letter from the general manager of the waldorf saying, i hear youre coming to new york. We would be hap