Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

BUZZ MAGAZINE The Negro Leagues have only recently received their due in baseball history, as their story, in a time when ...

From the rodeo to baseball. Historian and author Phil Dixon—who also co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas ...

Kansas City Monarchs Championship Centennial Luis Maes, the Royals’ vice president of community impact, said the team’s annual Negro Leagues game will be July 28 when the Chicago Cubs come to ...

In addition to its partnership with the Kansas City Royals to offer free admission during Black History Month, the Negro ...

Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...

Bob Kendrick has been the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum since 2011, but he said it’s too early to talk about ...

The museum opened in the 1990s as a single office space. Legends like the great late Buck O’Neil took turns paying rent out of pocket.

It’s tongue and cheek, of course. But that same sentiment can be said, in a more serious tone, about Black history: It cannot ...

The Negro Leagues had profitable teams and great ... Branch Rickey, who famously signed Robinson from the Kansas City Monarchs, is portrayed as a ruthless businessman in this documentary.

“Mr. Cub” himself, Ernie Banks, had to be convinced to go to Chicago after falling in love with Kansas City during his time with the Negro Leagues’ Monarchs. “So much so that when the Cubs ...