Celebrating Black History with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
John “Buck” O’Neil founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in 1990. It is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating African-American baseball history and its impact on the social advancement of America. Originating in a one-room office in 1991, the NLBM expanded to a 10,000 square-foot space in the cultural complex known as the Museums at 18th & Vine. This Kansas City, Missouri, location is the ideal spot for the NLBM – it is two blocks from the Paseo YMCA, where Andrew “Rube” Foster established the Negro National League in 1920. The United States Congress designated the NLBM as “America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum” in 2006. Volunteers are welcome. Learn more at NLBM.com.
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