Negro Leagues Museum celebrates Kansas City's history
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Sports Rap - Buck O'Neil - Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - SPNN
The following Sports Rap program was taped in November of 2004.
The hour long program includes the segment where Kwame McDonald and Frank White traveled to Kansas City, Missouri to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to interview Buck O'Neil and Lou White.
After airing the segment, Kwame McDonald and Frank White discuss Negro Leagues baseball history.
Blunt Pays Tribute to Negro Leagues Baseball Museum 7/18/18
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) spoke on the Senate floor to pay tribute to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which is located in Kansas City, Missouri, the birthplace of Negro Leagues baseball. Blunt discussed the history of the Negro National League, which is approaching the 100th Anniversary of its founding inside the Paseo YMCA in 1920.
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Description: The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed Negro Major Leagues. In 1885 the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance. The Negro American League of 1951 is considered the last major league season and the last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated as a humorous sideshow rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to the 1980s.
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Legend John Jordan O'Neil talks about the good ole' days playing ball - HP commercial for the internet & printing
The charismatic John Jordan O'Neil, or Buck as he was affectionately known, is an American hero. His eloquence, grace and genuine love for people have captured the hearts and imaginations of kindred spirits worldwide. His illustrious baseball career spanned seven (7) decades and helped make him a foremost authority and, arguably, the game's greatest ambassador.
Buck was born November 13, 1911 in Carrabelle, Florida. His father, who played for local teams, introduced him to baseball at an early age. He was nicknamed Buck after the co-owner of the Miami Giants, Buck O'Neal. A segregated America denied O'Neil the chance to play Major League baseball so he showcased his skills in the Negro Leagues starting his professional career in 1937 with the Memphis Red Sox. He joined the Kansas City Monarchs in 1938, was named player/manager for the club in 1948 and continued his association with the team through the end of the 1955 season. Buck had his tenure with the Monarchs interrupted from 1943-45 while serving in the United States Navy during WWII.
After getting discharged from the Navy, Buck rejoined the Monarchs in 1946 and didn't miss a beat. The talented first baseman led the league in hitting with a 353 average and followed that in '47 with a career best .358 mark. He hit .345 in '49. Buck finished his career with a lifetime batting average of .288.
He played in three Negro American League All-Star games and two Negro American League World Series. In addition to his career with the Monarchs, Buck teamed with the legendary Satchel Paige during the height of Negro League barnstorming in 1930's and 40's to play countless exhibition games.
Following his Monarch career, Buck moved on to Major League Baseball as a scout with the Chicago Cubs and is credited with signing Hall of Fame baseball players Ernie Banks and Lou Brock to their first pro contracts. In 1962, Buck broke barriers when the Chicago Cubs named him the Major's first black coach. In 1988, Buck began scouting for the Kansas City Royals and was named Midwest Scout of the Year in 1998.
Buck rose to national prominence with his compelling narration of the Negro Leagues as part of Ken Burns' PBS baseball documentary. Since then, he has been the source of countless national interviews including appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, and Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder.
In 1990, Buck co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, MO and served as its Board Chairman for 16 years until his death in 2006. He would appear before a committee of the United States Senate where his inspired testimony helped the NLBM gain National Designation from Congress as America's National Negro Leagues Museum. Buck was also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee until 2001, leading the charge for deservant Negro Leaguers to be inducted. In 2006, 17 Negro Leagues veterans were honored by Cooperstown in an historic vote by special election. Buck, to the dismay of the baseball world, was not selected to join this distinguished group.
Although his exclusion from the Hall outraged many, Buck stood tall and taught the nation a valuable lesson on how to handle disappointment and adversity. Buck would push aside his own personal disappointment and graciously accepted and invitation from the National Baseball Hall of Fame to speak on behalf of the 17 Negro League inductees. Many believe that moment ranks as one of the most selfless acts in American sports history. Two months later Buck died at age 94, one month shy of his 95th birthday.
Our nation, and baseball fans worldwide, were sadden by the news of Buck's passing on Oct. 6, 2006. His impact, however, continued to be recognized after his death, as he received several prestigious awards. These included the nation's highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented to his family by President George W. Bush.
Today, O'Neil's legacy, and the legacies of the more than 2,600 men and women who played in the Negro Leagues, live on at the NLBM, or the house that Buck built.
Brushback: A Legacy of Black Baseball in West Michigan
Brushback chronicles West Michigan's black baseball history dating back to 1906. From Ted Raspberry's Grand Rapids Black Sox and Kansas City Monarchs to the Detroit Stars, owned by his niece Minnie Forbes, Brushback explores the true stories of West Michigan black baseball by the men and women who played the game on and off the field.
Around Kansas - Luther Haden Dummy Taylor, Famous Pitcher from Oskaloosa - July 5, 2017
(Frank) We’re back again. This is Around Kansas. I’m Frank; she’s Deb. It’s Wednesday again, and we’re into July. We’re in the good old summer time: baseball, hot dogs, and all of that. The next story is going to be about another baseball player, very famous one from the state of Kansas. He was deaf. You know how the catcher will give the pitcher signs? Dummy Taylor, that’s who the story is about, is really the one that created that because he was a pitcher. They needed to communicate. So he developed signs that the various players use. They still use them today on the field. That’s how they talk to each other. This is really a cool story about Dummy Taylor. This is a story suggested to me by Ben Coates, a player for the Topeka Westerns vintage baseball team. Luther Haden Dummy Taylor was a deaf-mute American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1900 to 1908. He played for the New York Giants and Cleveland Bronchos and was one of the key pitchers on the Giants' National League championship teams of 1904 and 1905. In 1901, his first full season in the major leagues, Taylor led the National League by pitching in 45 games and ranked second in the league with 37 complete games. In 1904, he won 21 games for the Giants, and in 1906 his 2.20 ERA was the lowest on a pitching staff that included Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Iron Man Joe McGinnity. Taylor was the only successful deaf pitcher in Major League Baseball and was regarded, along with Dummy Hoy, as a role model and hero in the American deaf community in the early 20th century. In the 1900s, Taylor was reported to be the highest paid deaf person in the United States. He was also known as the comedian of the Giants teams, waving a lit lantern when an umpire refused to call a game due to darkness and coaching at third base in rubber boots when an umpire refused to call a game due to rain. In 2000, author Darryl Brock wrote the historical novel Havana Heat about Taylor's experience in professional baseball. The book won the Dave Moore Award in 2000 as the most important baseball book published that year. Taylor was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas in 1875. He was the son of Arnold B. Taylor, a farmer, and his wife, Emaline. At the time of the 1880 United States Census, Taylor was living in rural Jefferson County with his parents, two older brothers, and two older sisters. Some accounts indicate Taylor was born deaf. However, at age four, Taylor was not listed as being deaf and dumb or otherwise handicapped in the family's U.S. Census record. By age 10, Taylor was living at the Kansas School For the Deaf in Olathe. He was listed in the 1885 Kansas State Census as a pupil at the Deaf and Dumb Institute. Taylor continued to live at the Kansas School for the Deaf through his high school years. He was a pitcher for the school baseball team and participated in boxing. Interviewed in 1942, Taylor recalled he had dreams as a boy of becoming a great boxer, but his parents objected. At the time of the 1895 Kansas State Census, Taylor was living in Olathe. After leaving the Kansas School for the Deaf, Taylor began playing semi-pro baseball with a team in Nevada, Missouri. He then played at Lincoln, Illinois, and with minor league teams in Wabash, Crawfordsville, Danville and Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1897, he played for a minor league team in Mattoon, Illinois. He played for the Shreveport Tigers of the Southern League in 1898 and 1899. In 1900, Taylor began the season playing for Albany, New York. At the time of the U.S. Census in June 1900, Taylor was residing at a boarding house in Albany; his occupation was listed as a printer. In August 1900, Taylor was called up to the major leagues to play for the New York Giants. He made his major league debut on August 27, 1900. In his first game for the Giants, five Boston players tried to take advantage of Taylor's deafness by trying to steal third base. Interviewed in 1942, Taylor recalled with pride, I nailed each one. I walked over to Herman Long, the last man caught, and let him know by signs I could hear him stealing. Appearing in 11 games for the 1900 Giants, Taylor compiled a 4–3 record with a 2.45 ERA. In his second season in the major leagues, Taylor was a workhorse for the 1901 Giants. He led the National League with 43 games started and appearing in a total of 45 games. In nine seasons in the major leagues, Taylor compiled an overall win-loss record of 116–106 and 767 strikeouts. He threw 237 complete games and 21 shutouts. He had a career ERA of 2.75. Taylor was profoundly deaf and communicated on-field with his teammates in sign language. He is credited with helping to expand and make universal the use of sign language throughout the modern baseball infield, including but not limited to the use of pitching signs. Taylor was inducted into the American Athletic Association of the Deaf Hall of Fame in 1953. He was also inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Negro League Baseball History Event - Friday, August 22, 2014
In front of an audience of more than 500, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) hosted a Negro League Baseball History Event at Martin University's Gathertorium. Phil Dixon, a co-founder of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO, provided a keynote presentation. The program also included a special viewing of Black Baseball in Indiana- a 2011 documentary produced by Ball State University.
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The town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River was home of one of Missouri’s favorite sons, Samuel Clemens…or Mark Twain. His characters come alive in Norman Rockwell’s paintings at Mark Twain Museum - his wit never tires during performances of “Mark Twain Himself” by actor Richard Garey. Downriver, city of St. Louis is home to America’s most visited National Monument, the Gateway Arch at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, and visit country’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, is dedicated to preserving the memory of America’s 33rd president, who presided over some of the 20th centuries most important political events and decisions. Kansas City famous for sculpture, fountains, jazz, good barbeque and more. The “City of Fountains” boasts more outdoor water features than any other, Rome excepted. Country Club Plaza is oldest outdoor shopping center in USA, it was modeled after Seville, Spain. Two museums in Kansas City highlight African American contributions to the community. At American Jazz Museum, music and artifacts of great jazz icons like Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald are on display. Next door, a different collection is dedicated to preserving rich history of African-American baseball at Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Since 1910, Hallmark Cards has grown to become largest greeting card company in the world. They produce millions of cards for every occasion and emotion, each one starts with an idea from their creative writers. Deep in limestone bluffs of Missouri River…SubTropolis, largest underground business complex in the world. Over 5 million square feet of leasable space lies beneath ground in its growing network passages and rooms. Another subterranean attraction…Fantastic Caverns, the only drive-thru cave tour in North America. In Missouri Ozarks, a different phenomenon: Branson. The area has grown to one of the world’s great live music and entertainment destinations. The shows start at breakfast and go all day, acts like Buck Trent, Jim Stafford and Cirque at the Remington Theater. Big Cedar Lodge is 5 star lakeside resort with 10,000 acres of man made waterfalls, trout ponds and streams in Dogwood Canyon. The Bass Pro Shop in Springfield is state’s number one tourist attraction. Seven football fields of hunting, fishing and outdoor-recreation products, displays, artwork, memorabilia and live exhibits bring outdoors inside and show what “shoppertainment” is all about. In Sikeston,annual Redneck BBQ is a down home party with great food cooked slow and easy.
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Around Kansas - African American Museum and History Trail in Kansas- May 17, 2017
(Frank) Here we're again. This is Around Kansas. (Deb) In case you just tuned in. (Frank) Yes. At first we do a lot of nonsense. But then we really get into some pretty cool stories. (Deb) Yes. Kicking and screaming we’re dragged in to some pretty good stories to get away from all the nonsense. This is a really great one, African American History Trail in Kansas. And, of course, being a historian this is one that’s very close to my heart. Because, Kansas was founded in the very heart of the matter whether or not we’re going to be a free state or a slave state.; at the time when whether or not slavery would be expanded into the western part of the country. Of course, that ripped the nation in two. Kansas is right at the heart of that. But, it’s not just at the heart of the controversy. It’s at the heart of black people finding a home in the midst of that and then after the war. And so the Exodusters - it’s a very famous story and all of freed slaves coming out of the south; the First Kansas Colored, the Buffalo Soldiers, we’ve got all that early history. But then it goes on and on and on. This is about bringing together of all those eras and all those different stories. Yes, I love the story. The Kansas African American Museum, formerly the venerable Calvary Baptist Church, was once the cornerstone of Wichita’s vibrant black community. It was built in 1917 when the congregation’s leaders worked nights and weekends, separate and apart from their jobs, to finish the church. That community featured restaurants, businesses and homes. It hosted jazz artists, Negro League Baseball stars, and was the home of America’s first African American Academy Award winner and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer among others. Its newest project is the African American Kansas History Trail. As recipients of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant, the museum will collaborate with partner sites to distinguish and tell the story of the African American contributions to Kansas at its various historical sites, chronicling the people, places, and events that created this rich history. The sites and the stories they tell are varied in location, era of time and cultural influences. It truly encompasses the entire state. The sites include Nicodemus, African American Township; The Buffalo Soldiers who were stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Ft. Riley and active in Ft. Scott and Baxter Springs; The Richard Allen Museum and Cultural Center, Leavenworth; brown vs. Board National Historic Site; home of Langston Hughes, Lawrence; home of Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott; several sites on the Underground Railroad including the John and Mary Jane Ritchie House in Topeka; the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie; the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum; George Washington Carver exhibits in Minneapolis and many others. It is the intent of the partnership to form an alliance to support and sustain the sites along the Trail, to elevate public awareness, to develop educational programs and to celebrate and share this history throughout the nation. Visit the Museum’s website for more information on this exciting partnership.
Lakeland Currents - Negro League Legacy: Restoring Our Local Legends
Peter Gorton a baseball historian discuses the history of the Negro Leagues in Northern Minnesota.
Aired October 10, 2013 Season 6, Episode 601
Black Ball - The Players of the Negro Baseball Leagues
Thursday, February 21, 2013
What If histories stir the imagination, leaving people wondering how their lives could have been different if alternative decisions had been made. History and sports fans alike will find the What If of the major leagues being integrated long before Jackie Robinson a fascinating option to consider. And, how would twenty-one stars of the black ball era (Negro Leagues and independent black teams) like to be honored? Bob May discusses his acclaimed book, The Best Season, the First Ninety Games. Special appearance by Dr. William Blair Jr., Pitcher from the Cincinnati Crescents and Indianapolis Clowns
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored the Civil Wars First African American Combat