The restoration of the Kansas City home where Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige lived for 32 years received a major financial boost from the Mellon Foundation of New York, which donated $750,000.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Restoring the Satchel Paige home is in the first inning of a nine-inning game, according to Pitch Perfect KC – the nonprofit that has tasked itself with honoring one of the ...
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PHOENIX — When Lamar Hunt moved the Chiefs to Kansas City in 1963, the franchise put down roots at Municipal Stadium, a converted baseball park at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn. Six blocks away, a ...
The legendary Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, was the site for Major League Baseball Thursday night, and the Negro leagues were top of mind given the diamond's importance to its history. The ...
The weeds at the front of the house stand 10 inches high. It’s clapboard is rotted and peeling in sheets. The walls, floors and ceilings inside the Kansas City home that Negro Leagues legend Leroy ...