The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is building a new state-of-the-art facility to house the museum’s artifacts, replica jerseys and photographs. ByNateTaylor details an announcement 33 years in the making that was inspired by the legendary Buck O'Neil.
A few minutes later, Kendrick explained that the reason the museum needed a new building was simple: There’s no longer any open space in the current 10,000-square-foot operation.
“This is Kansas City’s gift to the rest of the world,” Kendrick said of the museum. “Every time that I want to tell a new story, I literally have to tear something up. That is not the ideal way. If we were to acquire a significant collection — and I hope that we will — we wouldn’t have proper space to really be able to showcase it. It signifies how valued this museum has become through the years.”
Sherman promised Kendrick that the Royals would make a donation. Sherman, along with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, is expected to encourage other MLB owners to make a donation. In the Negro Leagues’ prime years, Kendrick has told visitors that the five-story Paseo YCMA building was the place where iconic boxer Joe Louis and Robinson trained, before Robinson broke the majors’ color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Growing up in Kansas City in the 1960s, White played baseball on Friday nights in the same area where the city’s MLB Urban Youth Academy was built. In the winter, he spent hours inside the building developing his skills.
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