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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the historic 18th & Vine District, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century.
The Negro American League, founded in 1937 and including several of the same teams that played in the original Negro National League, would eventually carry on as the western circuit of black baseball. A second Negro National League was organized in 1933, but eventually became concentrated on the east coast.
“The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a tremendous educational resource and is one of the nation’s most important Civil Rights and Social Justice institutions. We hope that students and adults ...
Negro League Baseball Players Association; Negro Leagues Baseball Museum web site; Center for Negro League Baseball Research; Negro League Baseball Project (3 interviews) via Western Historical Manuscript Collection – University of Missouri-St. Louis; For Negro League Players, a Measure of Recognition, The New York Times, 30 June 2010
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate the opening of a Black baseball exhibit and honor the Negro Leagues with an All-Star Game over Memorial Day weekend.
KC mayor Quinton Lucas said it is important that the Monarchs’ championship in the 1924 Negro Leagues World Series be celebrated. Negro Leagues Baseball Museum announces celebration of KC’s ...
Kendrick has created many signature museum educational programs and events including the Hall of Game which honors former Major League Baseball greats who played "in the spirit and signature style of the Negro leagues." [2] With the museum shut down in early 2020 due to COVID-19, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro leagues, he ...
The Negro Leagues have been in the news a lot lately. Shortly after celebrating their 100th anniversary in August, Major League Baseball said the league had officially been elevated to Major ...