As president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., Bob Kendrick is plenty familiar with the players who starred for the Grays and Crawfords and made Pittsburgh an integral part of Black baseball, names like Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell or Buck Leonard rolling off his tongue like items on a grocery list.
At the same time, Kendrick is also a fan of baseball on the whole and fully aware of the Pirates' managerial history, from Fred Clarke's franchise-high 1,422 wins to Danny Murtaugh's two World Series titles to several other impressive runs.
While Kendrick would never argue against any of the aforementioned greats, he's also continuously surprised that Vic Harris doesn't get more run when it comes to some of the baseball icons who have called Pittsburgh home.
