EPISODE 3: THE NUMBERS RUNNER

Gus Greenlee was a numbers runner, bootlegger and businessman who used his considerable wealth to buy a legendary Hill District jazz club and assemble one of the greatest baseball teams ever to take the field.

EPISODE NOTES:

Production help from David Smith.

Music used in this episode came from the Free Music Archive.

Podington Bear “Aim is True” “Cake” “Storm Passing” and “Bittersweet”

Dee Yan-Key “Grand Hotel” “Lucky Day” and “Through Golden Fields”

Research and resources used for this episode came from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Archives, “Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend” by Larry Tye, “Stories Not Told in History Books” by Nina Greenlee and “The Crossroads of the World: A Social and Cultural History of Jazz in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1920-1970″ by Colter Harper