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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ( NLBM) is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the historic 18th & Vine District, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century.
1962 (age 61–62) Crawfordville, Georgia. Occupation. President. Known for. Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Bob Kendrick (born 1962) is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri. [1] Prior to that he served as the museum's first Director of Marketing and was promoted to Vice President of Marketing in 2009.
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced that based on recent decades of historical research, it classified the seven "major Negro leagues" as additional major leagues, adding them to the six historical "major league" designations it made in 1969, thus recognizing statistics and approximately 3,400 players who played from 1920 to 1948. [4]
“The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a tremendous educational resource and is one of the nation’s most important Civil Rights and Social Justice institutions. We hope that students and adults ...
It is a baseball cathedral,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick told NBC St. Louis affiliate KSDK. “So much baseball history has been made at that park, and a lot of it was ...
Interviewees such as Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick celebrate these achievements without forgetting that they only existed in the first place due to systemic racism — the ...
As of December 2023, 343 people had been elected to the Hall of Fame, including 241 former Major League Baseball players, 39 Negro league baseball players and executives, 23 managers, 10 umpires, and 36 pioneers, executives, and organizers. One hundred eighteen members of the Hall of Fame have been inducted posthumously, including four who died ...
Negro Leagues legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson will become MLB’s single-season record holder in batting average (.466 in 1943), slugging percentage (.974 in 1937) and OPS (1.474 in ...