“He came up to me and said, ‘I’m 89, I belong in the Hall of Fame and I’m running out of time,’ ” Vincent recalled before a Chicago White Sox game at what then was called new Comiskey Park.
Radcliffe, dubbed “Double Duty” by sportswriter Damon Runyan for pitching one end of a doubleheader and catching the other, was cautiously optimistic when I asked him about Vincent’s comment.
The Sox honored Radcliffe and a couple of dozen other Negro Leagues players including Buck O’Neil, Sam Jethroe and Perry Hall, that May afternoon on the South Side.