Articles

•  Home
•  Black History in the News
•  A Troubled Time
•  Affirmative Action
•  Andrew Jackson Beard
•  Barack Obama
•  Bass Reeves
•  Bessie Coleman
•  Black Power
•  Booker T. Washington
•  Brown vs. Board of Education
•  Buffalo Soldiers
•  Cab Calloway
•  Cathay Williams
•  Earl Lloyd
•  Emanuel Stance
•  Equal Opportunity Legislation
Eugene Jacques Bullard
Frederick Douglass
•  George Washington Carver
•  Granville T. Woods
•  Harriet Tubman
•  Jackie Robinson
•  Jarm Logue
•  Jermain Wesley Loguen
•  John Mercer Langston
•  Jordan & Ali
•  Juneteenth
•  Laughter That Heals
•  Leron Lee
•  Malcolm X
•  Marcus Garvey
•  Marian Wright Edelman
•  Martin Luther King Jr.
•  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream
•  Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
•  Memorial Day
•  Nat Turner
•  Negro League Baseball Museum
•  Rosa Parks
•  Sam Cooke
•  Sarah E. Goode
•  Slavery
•  Dr Solomon Carter
•  The Dred Scott Decision
•  The 13th Amendment
•  The 15th Amendment
•  The Halls of Power
•  The Harlem Renaissance
•  The Black American Soldier
•  The Rainbow Coalition
•  The Underground Railroad
•  Thurgood Marshall
•  Tousant L'Overture
•  Triumph at Berlin Olympics
•  Vivien T. Thomas
•  W.E.B. Du Bois
•  William Still


Shop
•  African American History Online Black History Store
•  100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History
•  1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History
•  African American Culture DVD Series
•  African American Firsts
•  Black History: From Civil War Through Today
•  Black History of the White House
•  Black Men Built the Capitol
•  Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
•  Creating Black Americans
•  Kid's Guide to African American History
•  Legacy: Treasures of Black History
•  Setting the Record Straight
•  more...





Negro League Baseball Museum
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Offers history, exhibits, news and events with online store selling apparel, books, videos, gifts and collectibles. Located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States Learn more click here

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro League baseball in America. The museum is part of the historic 18th & Vine district, which also includes the American Jazz Museum.

Inspiration

Through the inspiration of Horace M. Peterson III (1945-1992), founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, a group of local historians, business leaders, and former baseball players came together to create the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the early 1990s. It functioned out of a small, one room office in the Lincoln Building, which is located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District of Kansas City, MO. It quickly incorporated, built a board of directors and staffing, and created a licensing program to support operations.
.

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 by a group of former Negro Leagues baseball players, including Kansas City Monarchs outfielder, Alfred Surratt, Buck O'Neil, and Horace Peterson.[3] It moved from a small, single-room office inside the Lincoln Building at historic 18th & Vine streets in Kansas City[3] to a 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) space in 1994. Three years later, in 1997, the museum relocated again, to a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2), purpose-built structure five times the previous size.[4] The museum resides in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century. Within the same building is the American Jazz Museum, celebrating Kansas City's likewise vibrant jazz scene during that same time period. On March 20, 2013 a special screening of the movie 42 was held in Kansas City on April 11, 2013, a day before its nationwide release, as a benefit for the Negro Leagues museum. Actor Harrison Ford, one of the stars of the film, participated in the fundraiser.[5]42 is a biographical film about the life of baseball player Jackie Robinson, who played for the Kansas City Monarchs prior to breaking baseball's color barrier..



About The Museum & Displays

The museum chronologically charts the progress of the Negro leagues with informative placards and interactive exhibits. Its walls are lined with pictures of players, owners, and officials of Negro league baseball from the Negro National League of 1920 through the Negro American League, which lasted until 1960. As one progresses through the exhibit, one moves forward through the history of Black baseball. In one area of the museum, there are lockers set up for some of the legends of the Negro leagues. One can see game-worn uniforms, cleats, gloves, and other artifacts from stars such as Josh Gibson, the "Black Babe Ruth."

By far the most impressive aspect of the museum, however, is the Field of Legends. Separated from the visitor at the entrance by chicken wire, it is accessible only at the end of the tour. One can walk onto a field adorned by nearly life-sized bronze statues of twelve figures from Negro league history. Crouching behind the plate is Gibson, one of the most prolific hitters in baseball history, a man who allegedly hit over 80 home runs in one season. At first base is another Baseball Hall of Famer, Buck Leonard, a teammate of Gibson's with the Homestead Grays. At second base is Pop Lloyd, Judy Johnson monitors shortstop, while Ray Dandridge holds down third base. In the outfield are Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, and Leon Day. On the mound is perhaps the most famous Negro leaguer of all time, Satchel Paige, who became a rookie in the Major Leagues at age 42 in 1948. At the plate is Martín Dihigo, the only man to be inducted into the Halls of Fame in three countries: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Other statues commemorate Rube Foster, the founder of the Negro National League, and Buck O'Neil, a former Kansas City Monarch and a member of the board of the Museum until his October 6, 2006, death.







Black History in the News | Privacy Policy

Black History Store © 2010- | Black History Store

Created by sliplink.net


Share |