🎙️ Ring the Bell: A Journey Through Philadelphia Baseball History

This week, we step back into the Reconstruction Era and onto the field with the Philadelphia Pythians—one of the first all-Black baseball teams in America—and their fearless leader Octavius Catto.

⚾ From forming a pioneering team that challenged segregation…📜 To organizing games against white clubs like the Olympics…💔 To Catto’s tragic assassination on Election Day 1871…

This episode is a tribute to baseball, brotherhood, and bravery in 19th-century Philadelphia. You’ll never look at the game—or the city—the same way again.