Have you ever had the desire to play professional baseball? Well, your opportunity may be just around the corner when the ...
(KCTV) - Baseball players in the Kansas City metro have been invited to test their skills during tryouts for one of the area’s professional teams. The Kansas City Monarchs have announced that ...
For the average baseball fan they may not have realized the idea came from the Negro Leagues and the Kansas City Monarchs. “The moral of the story is this, if you don’t control the pen ...
Let’s pretend it’s April 1947, when then-Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey signed a Black player who was soon to break the Major League Baseball color barrier euphemized as a ...
Because he signed the next day with the Kansas City Monarchs, the first of four independent ... coaching 8-year-old Little League and tutoring baseball on the side.
In July, the Kansas City Monarchs, the Negro League’s champion professional baseball team, came to Richmond to play the Red Sox. The game was played at the American Legion Memorial Park baseball field ...