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The world’s only national museum dedicated... Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. 28,131 likes · 99 talking about this · 29,353 were here. The world’s only national museum dedicated to preserving the rich history of black baseball.
While many are aware that Jackie Robinson courageously broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, few know that his pioneering professional baseball career began in the Negro Leagues with the Kansas City Monarchs. On May 6, 1945, Robinson played his first game with the Monarchs.
The unique literacy program was developed by the NLBM in partnership with the United States Department of Education in 1999 and brings an ethnic diverse group of area students, K-5, into the cultural confines of the NLBM where they are read to adults representing various professions. The program is held several times during the school year on ...
ADDRESS: 1616 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108. LOCATION: In the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District. PHONE: 816-221-1920. WEBSITE: www.nlbm.com. HIGHLIGHTS: The NLBM is laid out as a timeline of the Negro Leagues and American history.
Sep 25, 2012 · Specialties: 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 ...
- 1616 E 18th St Kansas City, MO 64108
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Kansas City, United States. Follow. Welcome to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. It is designated by the U.S. Congress as "America's Home" for Negro Leagues baseball history.
Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Mo., Foster and a few other Midwestern team owners joined to form the Negro National League. Soon, rival leagues formed in Eastern and Southern states, bringing the thrills and innovative play of black baseball to major urban centers and rural country sides in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.
