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Plans are announced for a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as a tribute to the men who played the game at a time when the major leagues excluded them.
1991 (Aug)
Plans were announced for a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as a tribute to the men who played the game at a time when the major leagues excluded them. The museum was to be part of a Black culture complex, the first phase of which was expected to open in early 1994. Proceeds from the museum will be used to cover pension, health, and other benefits for surviving members of the Negro Leagues. Although the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, now inducts former star Negro League players, the new museum would do much more, said W. Lloyd Johnson, executive director of the Negro Baseball Leagues. "There's no commitment to Black baseball by the Hall of Fame. It honors the cream of the crop and people don't visit the Hall of Fame to see the stars of the Negro Leagues. We want to honor all the Negro League players and the men and women who made the enterprise work."
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.