Lexington native Bobby Flynn on making history with the Hustlers

Saving Stories returns with a fresh episode on the integration of baseball. Not the Jackie Robinson story but another event that happened right here in Lexington. Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd shares audio from an oral history interview with Lexington native Bobby Flynn, who in 1947 helped the Lexington Hustlers become the first integrated baseball team in the South. Flynn was white but had been rejected by the white teams because he was small. In the interview Bobby Flynn tells the story of being asked by manager John 'Scoop' Brown to join the Negro League team, and the reaction from members of the local white community.

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Lexington native Bobby Flynn on making history with the Hustlers is an episode from Saving Stories by WUKY.

This episode is 5:00 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2025.

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