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Former Phillies slugger Ryan Howard makes pitch for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum expansion

Former Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard and San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt announced their plans Thursday to join the Negro Leagues’ “Pitch for the Future” in bringing greater awareness to the legacy of the Negro Leagues with a museum expansion

The Independent UK

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum looks to raise $25 million for new facility

Museum president Bob Kendrick said the “Pitch for the Future” campaign is designed to lead to a new 30,000-square foot facility that would be adjacent to the Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB The Show video game will include storylines on legendary Negro Leagues players

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is one of the best places to visit in Kansas City, because there is much to learn about the men and women who were part of that piece of U.S. history.

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Vahe Gregorian: How the brilliant tale of the KC Current team stands for a Kansas City on the move

Whenever friends from around the country ask me about Kansas City, I tell them it’s a welcoming and eclectic place with world-class attractions, such as the National World War I Museum and Memorial, the Nelson-Atkins, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and BBQ-mania.

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Vahe Gregorian: Buck’s HOF call inspires NLBM campaign that could be catalyst for Bob Kendrick’s dream

Friday was another beautiful day at, and for, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. So much so that even by his gleaming standards NLBM president Bob Kendrick radiated a certain surplus glow still basking in Buck O’Neil’s long-awaited induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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It’s official at long last: Buck O’Neil takes his place at Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

Buck O’Neil, the beloved late Negro Leagues baseball and Kansas City icon, was officially enshrined on Sunday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

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Chiefs’ Justin Reid, Trent McDuffie visited Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for Juneteenth

A pair of new #Chiefs celebrated #Juneteenth by taking a trip to @NLBMuseumKC with over a dozen football players from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy.

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New bobblehead collection will benefit Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The bobbleheads replicate the 13 life-size statues featured at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum’s Field of Legends.

Chicago Sun-Times

Grays legend Vic Harris might be Pittsburgh's most under-appreciated Negro Leagues star

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…

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Vahe Gregorian: Why a bullet-riddled Jackie Robinson marker is vital to Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first words of Jackie Robinson's biography, "I Never Had It Made," deftly frame the circumstances of his birth in Cairo, Ga.

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Vandalized plaque honoring Jackie Robinson to be displayed

A plaque honoring baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was vandalized in Georgia is coming to Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to be put on display

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