It seems as though there’s this agenda to stoke fear,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick said.
At least back then, righteousness prevailed when Jackie Robinson debuted with the Dodgers — two years after spending a season with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues — and changed ...
SCHENECTADY – The Schenectady NAACP celebrated Black History Month on Saturday by honoring the Mohawk Giants, a Black baseball team that played in Schenectady until 1915. Speakers also ...
When the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame inducts its 2025 class at its 60th annual banquet on April 9 at the Hilton Denver City ...
Jackie Robinson played with the Kansas City Monarchs before becoming the first African American to play major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The NLBM is located at ...
A recent article in a Kansas City magazine notes that the Monarchs were the city’s most popular sports team in the 1920s. Jackie Robinson, a former Army officer who had been a football standout ...
Satchel Paige was 59 years old – or something close to it – when he walked off a Major League mound for the last time. Pitching for the Kansas City A’s on Sept. 25, 1965, the legendary Negro Leagues s ...