Drove up for Casino time (Ameristar rocks, non-smoking poker room, good comps), went to see KC- SF baseball game, (good 10.00 tickets high in nosebleeds, behind home plate) ate Arthur Bryant barbecue till I almost passed out, and on a lark went to
Negro Ball Player hall of fame, for eight dollars you got admission
+ admission to Jazz museum next door...
Really good experience.. Starts out with 20 min film history of negro league...from there you walk thru entire history starting with the year 1865...a shame they were not integrated into the bigs much sooner...some real superstars surpassing todays over-rated standards. Satchell Paige guaranteed he would strike out first nine batters he faced...and more ofen than not he did....
The first baseball night games were played by negro league..
Some of the all-star games in the 1930's had attendance surpassing 50,000....all of the games were dressy events,the crowds treated these games as social gatherings....
The depression of the early 1930's almost killed the leagues, they were scattered as far west as Kansas city....minor league versions
played in Texas,Oklahoma,Louisiana
World War 2 came along and many players enlisted and fought..
Ironically what killed the leagues for good in the late 1950's was
MLB...Jackie Robinson changed everything....Larry Doby was second, then the Dam burst....Baseball became America....
Museum had great gift shop with reasonably priced Tee's and hats...all with team names long gone.....Kansas City Monarchs,
New York Black Yankees, Atlanta Black-crackers, Cleveland Buckeyes, to name a few...
Hank Aaron came up with the Indianapolis Clowns....when he came up to bigs, Milwaukee didn't even buy his contract....the clowns received nada.....
WELL WORTH A LOOK-SEE IF YOU ARE IN KC AREA...about 12 miles
from Ameristar casino area..easy to find...JAZZ MUSEUM for jazz lovers only....lotsa neat history and interactive music to play with..
listening to, mixing, and re-arranging..
Negro Ball Player hall of fame, for eight dollars you got admission
+ admission to Jazz museum next door...
Really good experience.. Starts out with 20 min film history of negro league...from there you walk thru entire history starting with the year 1865...a shame they were not integrated into the bigs much sooner...some real superstars surpassing todays over-rated standards. Satchell Paige guaranteed he would strike out first nine batters he faced...and more ofen than not he did....
The first baseball night games were played by negro league..
Some of the all-star games in the 1930's had attendance surpassing 50,000....all of the games were dressy events,the crowds treated these games as social gatherings....
The depression of the early 1930's almost killed the leagues, they were scattered as far west as Kansas city....minor league versions
played in Texas,Oklahoma,Louisiana
World War 2 came along and many players enlisted and fought..
Ironically what killed the leagues for good in the late 1950's was
MLB...Jackie Robinson changed everything....Larry Doby was second, then the Dam burst....Baseball became America....
Museum had great gift shop with reasonably priced Tee's and hats...all with team names long gone.....Kansas City Monarchs,
New York Black Yankees, Atlanta Black-crackers, Cleveland Buckeyes, to name a few...
Hank Aaron came up with the Indianapolis Clowns....when he came up to bigs, Milwaukee didn't even buy his contract....the clowns received nada.....
WELL WORTH A LOOK-SEE IF YOU ARE IN KC AREA...about 12 miles
from Ameristar casino area..easy to find...JAZZ MUSEUM for jazz lovers only....lotsa neat history and interactive music to play with..
listening to, mixing, and re-arranging..
