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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I think we're ready for our next guest. Are we
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  Speaker 1: ready or ready? We're flying today?
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  Speaker 2: Yes we are.
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  Speaker 1: Bob Kendricks joining us right now, President of the Negro
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  Speaker 1: Leagues or the Negro Leagues Museum. I should say I've
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  Speaker 1: spoken in many times this is one of the best
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  Speaker 1: storytellers in baseball history. Bob, you know, I'll say it now.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do this before you explain your role
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  Speaker 1: and your job. I want to lure people in. So
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  Speaker 1: can you give us one of your favorite stories, Like
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  Speaker 1: for me, it's cool Papa Bell Hotel room lights. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to do that one first, that's cool. If
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  Speaker 1: you've got one, better, go for it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, we'll do the Cool Papa Bell story because
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  Speaker 3: it's such a great story and it's one of the
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  Speaker 3: great sports franks of all time, because the legendary Satchel
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  Speaker 3: Page would oftentimes refer to Cool Papa Bell as being
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  Speaker 3: the fastest man to ever play this game, and so
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  Speaker 3: Cool and Satchel fellas were great teammates. They were teammates
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  Speaker 3: on a number of teams, including the great nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 3: five Pittsburgh Crawfords that many believe to be the greatest
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  Speaker 3: baseball team ever symble. We're talking five future Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Famers playing in the prime at the same time. So
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  Speaker 3: they had Sachel, they had Cool Papa, they had Judy
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  Speaker 3: Johnson that had the legendary Oscar Charleston and a young
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  Speaker 3: phenom by the name of Joshua Gibson on the same
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  Speaker 3: team at the same time. Well, when they travel, Cool
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  Speaker 3: and Sachel were oftentimes roommates.
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  Speaker 2: So in this.
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  Speaker 3: Particular instance, Oh Cool gets to the hotel room before Sachel.
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  Speaker 3: He walks in the room, he flips the light switch on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a delay before the light comes on. He flipped
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  Speaker 3: the light switch off. There's a delay before the light
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  Speaker 3: goes out. Oh Cool Papa says, uh huh. When Sachel
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  Speaker 3: gets to the room, Cool is waiting on him. Sachel
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  Speaker 3: gets in bed, Cool hops up Roomy, I'm so fast,
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  Speaker 3: I can flip this light switch, run over, hop in bed,
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  Speaker 3: cover up before the room goes done. And Satchel was like, Cool,
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  Speaker 3: you fast, but you ain't that fast, And Cool Papa,
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  Speaker 3: Bill Betti, Meal Money and Old Satchel took debate and again,
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  Speaker 3: in one of the greatest sports pranks of all time,
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  Speaker 3: Cool was able to flip that light switch off, run
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  Speaker 3: over hop in bed cover up before the room went dark.
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  Speaker 3: That's how that story came about. That he is indeed
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  Speaker 3: faster than a light switch, and he duped his old
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  Speaker 3: buddy out of some meal money.
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  Speaker 1: That's really good, and Age, I feel like that's a
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  Speaker 1: prank that you would pull off.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, you know what we used to do. We
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  Speaker 4: used to just fake like we had ghosts in rooms
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  Speaker 4: and then we do stuff to people while they were sleeping.
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  Speaker 4: But we never I was never that fast, so I
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  Speaker 4: could never come up with something like that, although if
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  Speaker 4: I did, I did. We did one time. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going we did. One time. There was a tape delay
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  Speaker 4: game on and we had one of our clubhouse guys
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  Speaker 4: and this was like before HD and we were like, man,
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  Speaker 4: we bet this this this and it was we had
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  Speaker 4: a night game and it was a day game from
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  Speaker 4: like a different place, and we're like, we'll bet this happened.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, how do you guys know this?
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  Speaker 1: That's good? I love it all right, So Bob, we'll
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  Speaker 1: mix in some more stories. But first off, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to let everyone know about your longtime role and
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  Speaker 1: where everyone should be visiting if they haven't already.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely you have to make plans to visit the Negro
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  Speaker 3: League's Baseball Museum here in Kansas City, Missouri. Snowy Kansas
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  Speaker 3: and Missouri as we take this our first snowfall of
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  Speaker 3: the winter. Hopefully it's the last one, but I know
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  Speaker 3: that won't be the case. But anyway, if your travels
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  Speaker 3: bring you to Kansas City, come see me. It is
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  Speaker 3: such a special place, and fellas it's special for a
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  Speaker 3: number of reasons, because, and I'm gonna say this, you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to be a baseball fan to love this museum.
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  Speaker 3: Now we certainly think that is sacrilegious, but you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be a baseball fan, because if you're a
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  Speaker 3: fan of America history, you're going to love this museum.
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  Speaker 3: If you are a fan of the underdog overcoming adversity
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  Speaker 3: to go on to greatness, you're going to love this museum.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're a baseball fan, to boot, as we
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  Speaker 3: say in the country in Georgia, man, you in hog Heaven.
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  Speaker 3: It combines all of those worlds to come together for
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  Speaker 3: a very compelling story about these courageous athletes, who, as
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  Speaker 3: I like to say, forced a glorious history in the
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  Speaker 3: midst of an inglorious time in American history. And the
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  Speaker 3: story is really based on one small, simple principle. You
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  Speaker 3: won't let me play with you in the major leagues, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'll create a league of my own. And that's what
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  Speaker 3: they did here in Kansas City in nineteen twenty and
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  Speaker 3: they created this amazing league that gave an opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: the best black and Hispanic players to showcase their baseball
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  Speaker 3: abilities in this country. So it is absolutely just an
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  Speaker 3: amazing piece of history. I fell in love with it
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  Speaker 3: way back in nineteen ninety three when I got introduced
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  Speaker 3: to the museum, believe it or not, as a volunteer
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three. Who knew, because I certainly did.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea that it was going to turn
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  Speaker 3: into a career and really one of the most gratifying
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  Speaker 3: things I think I could have ever done. Because I
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  Speaker 3: was a baseball fan, and the minute I walked into
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  Speaker 3: what was then a one room in Negro League's Baseball Museum,
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  Speaker 3: just this tiny one room, I quickly realized how little
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  Speaker 3: I knew about this game and its history, and more importantly,
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  Speaker 3: its history as related to the connections of American history.
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  Speaker 3: And I just became engrossed in it, and I've been
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  Speaker 3: engaged and involved with it ever since. I get to
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  Speaker 3: serve now as president of a museum that I started
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  Speaker 3: as a volunteer. I've been president now for the last
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  Speaker 3: fourteen years, and I am just as amazed by me
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  Speaker 3: now as I was thirty two years ago when I
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  Speaker 3: started volunteering.
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  Speaker 2: Now you talked about it being just a one room museum.
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  Speaker 2: At one point, I think we have the renderings of
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  Speaker 2: the new building. Can you tell us what?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, that's what I build to build a
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  Speaker 3: new one. What are we gonna see?
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  Speaker 2: What are we going to see with that? With this
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  Speaker 2: render I mean, I love I love looking at renderings,
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  Speaker 2: the additions and what you're you know, the goals of
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  Speaker 2: what you're going for. Can you tell us a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about what you're gonna fill that part with? Because
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  Speaker 2: it's not one room anymore.
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  Speaker 3: No, it won't be. And I tell you what, Fellas,
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  Speaker 3: I have never been as excited about having to raise
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  Speaker 3: thirty five million dollars because that's where it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: quire fast to get this project done. But when you
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  Speaker 3: go from a one room office as we started in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety with this project today The current museum is
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  Speaker 3: about ten thousand square feet of space, so it's not
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  Speaker 3: an overwhelmingly large footprint, but as I tell my guests,
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  Speaker 3: but then those ten thousand square feet is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of information and it's beautifully curated. But here we are
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  Speaker 3: now on the cusp of building what I call the
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  Speaker 3: nation's first Negro league's campus as the gateway into historic
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  Speaker 3: eighteenth and Vine and an international headquarters for both Black
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  Speaker 3: baseball and social history. So you can see why we're
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  Speaker 3: so excited about the opportunity to share new stories, to
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  Speaker 3: hopefully unearth new artifacts, to expound on existing stories, and
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  Speaker 3: then have additional space for programming and events and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: That will allow us to position this museum for long
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  Speaker 3: term sustainability, and that's really the ongoing task that we
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  Speaker 3: have now. But I'm really excited. It shows how much
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  Speaker 3: the interest in this subject matter has grown over recent years,
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  Speaker 3: and I do believe that this museum has had a
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  Speaker 3: hand in helping grow that interest. For those of us
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  Speaker 3: who are baseball fans, you gonna come to that museum, man,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna meet some of the greatest athletes to ever
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  Speaker 3: put on a baseball or uniform. But by the time
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  Speaker 3: you walk away from our experience, you walk away with
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  Speaker 3: a deeper, richer appreciation for the greatness of this country.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that is what surprises people, because I
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  Speaker 3: think they think it's going to be a sad story.
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  Speaker 3: It's not. There's nothing sad or samba about this story.
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  Speaker 3: The circumstances that dictated a need for a Negro league's base,
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  Speaker 3: for a Negro league's is certainly sorrowful. Segregation was a
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  Speaker 3: horrible chapter in this country's history. But the story here
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  Speaker 3: is what emerged out of segregation, this wonderful story of
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  Speaker 3: triumph and conquest. And so to be able to now
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  Speaker 3: create this campus because the building that you saw right there,
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  Speaker 3: connected to the new museum is the building that the
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  Speaker 3: Negro Leagues were established, the PA sale YMC eight. So
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  Speaker 3: we're restoring that building. That historic landmark is where Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Rupe Foster led a group of eight independent black baseball
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  Speaker 3: team owners into a meeting and on February thirteenth, nineteen twenty,
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  Speaker 3: they walked out having established the Negro National League, the
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  Speaker 3: first successful organized black baseball league. So I'm just as
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  Speaker 3: excited to save that historic landmark and then build a
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  Speaker 3: new museum adjacent to that historic landmark. KP.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want the I don't want to. I want
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  Speaker 4: was one of the coolest things. I tell everybody. If
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  Speaker 4: you go to Kansas City, you've got to go to
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  Speaker 4: this museum And people are like, isn't it small? And
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  Speaker 4: then then this, I'm like, trust me, if you go there,
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  Speaker 4: you will be moved to things that you never thought
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  Speaker 4: were possible. It's unbelievable the artifacts y'all have and everything
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  Speaker 4: that y'all have. How much has it helped you, guys
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  Speaker 4: that MLB has embraced you. Guys, MLB, you know we
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  Speaker 4: like them or hate them. The things they've done for
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  Speaker 4: y'all and y'all's organizations in the past and baseball, including
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  Speaker 4: bringing in the stats of the Negro leagues to make
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  Speaker 4: them part of MLB's stats. How much has that helped
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  Speaker 4: you and open the awareness to a thing that's very
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  Speaker 4: special in America and needs to be talked about more.
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  Speaker 3: It's been tremendous. And let me say, man, that day
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  Speaker 3: when you all came to the museum was one of
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  Speaker 3: the proudest days ever for me because Kenny had promised
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  Speaker 3: the late Buck O'Neill that he was going to bring
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  Speaker 3: the world champion White Sox back to the Negro League
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  Speaker 3: Baseball Museum, and he upheld that promise and brought the
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  Speaker 3: entire team. That White Sox team was the first and
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  Speaker 3: only team that brought all of their players to the
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  Speaker 3: Negro League Baseball Museum. We've had a lot of players
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  Speaker 3: visit the museum, but that was the first time that
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  Speaker 3: all the players, every one of them, came to visit
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  Speaker 3: the museum. And AJ I'll never forget Jose Contreras when
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  Speaker 3: he walked into that museum and he saw his fellow countrymen,
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  Speaker 3: the great Martin Dihigo standing in a full life size statue.
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  Speaker 3: There at home plate, the pride that emanated from him
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  Speaker 3: as he saw his Cuban connection to this story of
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  Speaker 3: the Negro Leagues and Matin Dihigo is one of the
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  Speaker 3: greatest baseball players that most people know nothing about. He
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  Speaker 3: played all nine positions, played all nine of them. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he is the only baseball player in the history of
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  Speaker 3: our sport to be enshrined into five different countries baseball
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  Speaker 3: Halls of Fame. So he's in the Mexican, Cuban, Venezuela, Dominican,
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  Speaker 3: and in Cooperstown. So that was such a tremendous day
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  Speaker 3: for all of us. I know how special it was
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  Speaker 3: for the late great Buck O'Neill. But you're right what
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  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball has done in embracing the history of
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  Speaker 3: the Negro Leagues, and in doing so, this museum has
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  Speaker 3: helped elevate this museum international prominence. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 3: The things that you mentioned, the rolling of the status
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  Speaker 3: of the Negro Leagues into the record books of Major
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  Speaker 3: League Baseball as of last May twenty ninth, of twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four, when that happened, and the game that was
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  Speaker 3: held at Rickwood Field, a national spotlight for black baseball
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  Speaker 3: history at historic Rickwood Field, where you guys probably know
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  Speaker 3: a seventeen year old kid by the name of Willie
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  Speaker 3: Mays began patrolling center field for the Birmingham Black Barons
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  Speaker 3: to launch what becomes one of the greatest Major League
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  Speaker 3: careers of all time. And even their financial support of
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  Speaker 3: the museum has been instrumental in the growth of this museum,
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  Speaker 3: and it has put positioned as aj for this accelerated
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to expand the Negro League's Spa Museum because it
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  Speaker 3: has done a beautiful job of introducing this story to
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  Speaker 3: its incredible fan base, and the fans are responding to
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  Speaker 3: this history.
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  Speaker 2: I need Josh Gibson's story. We can't have two catchers
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  Speaker 2: on the on the show without talking about a young
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  Speaker 2: man that most people probably don't know. But if you
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  Speaker 2: just go to Baseball Reference, there is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: italic numbers because he was the best player in the
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  Speaker 2: game when he played.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he may be, certainly, in my estimation, the
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  Speaker 3: greatest combination of power and average this game has ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think it sometimes get a little bit lost
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  Speaker 3: because most people will define him as a great power hitter.
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  Speaker 3: I don't Josh Gibson Fellas was a great hitter with power,
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  Speaker 3: and now that the stats of the Negro leagues have
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  Speaker 3: been rolled into the history, into the record books of
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  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, he's your all time career batting average
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  Speaker 3: leader three seventy two single season batting record hit it
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  Speaker 3: held in nineteen forty three when he only hit four
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  Speaker 3: sixty six. I'm gonna go out on a limb and
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  Speaker 3: say that ain't gonna be broken. And as you just referenced,
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  Speaker 3: what makes it so even more remarkable He was putting
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  Speaker 3: up these incredible numbers as a catcher. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: catchers don't do that. You get one of the other power,
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  Speaker 3: maybe average, but rarely do you get the combination of
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  Speaker 3: the two for any sustained period of time. Josh Gibson
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  Speaker 3: wasn't just a good catcher. He was a great catcher.
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  Speaker 3: Rifle arm. He is throwing guys out from the crouch
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  Speaker 3: back in that era, had complete control of his pitching staff,
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  Speaker 3: so he called a great game. Was a good running catcher.
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  Speaker 3: He gonna steer your twenty twenty five bases or more
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  Speaker 3: to go with big bat. And when I say big bat,
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  Speaker 3: I mean big bat forty ounce, forty one inches man.
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  Speaker 3: And when you look at the photos of Josh, he
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  Speaker 3: ain't choking up. He's got a gripped down below the knob,
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  Speaker 3: big massive hands, big powerful forearms, big powerful thighs, and
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  Speaker 3: great eyes. The late great Buck O'Neill would describe Josh
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  Speaker 3: in this fashion that he had the eyes of Ted
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  Speaker 3: Williams and the power of Babe Ruth rolled into one
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  Speaker 3: dynamic package. Yeah, as we say, his outs were loud
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  Speaker 3: out the third basement and shortstop with damn there in
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  Speaker 3: left field when Gibson came up, because you're gonna get
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  Speaker 3: killed trying to creep in on Josh.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, one of my favorite things about going
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  Speaker 4: to Kansas City was always seeing Buck O'Neill on the
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  Speaker 4: buck O'Neill See And what they still do to remember
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  Speaker 4: him is is still even when I go to do
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  Speaker 4: a baseball to telecast, they do that. You always stop
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  Speaker 4: and every time they say, hey, here's the buck o'neilsie
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  Speaker 4: to always listen to who they give it to. It's
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  Speaker 4: one of the coolest things. But I know we're talking baseball,
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  Speaker 4: but I know you're in Kansas City. It's snowing. I
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  Speaker 4: got a question for you. Are the Chiefs going to
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  Speaker 4: make the playoffs? Because I'm counting okay, because here's my question.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone in baseball says, oh, we need a salary cap
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  Speaker 4: like the NFL. But the Chiefs have been to the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl like seven of the last eight years or
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  Speaker 4: whatever the number is, and they have a salary cap
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  Speaker 4: and they're in parody. But not long ago, the Royals
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  Speaker 4: were in the playoffs. The Roads have been in the
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  Speaker 4: hunt for the playoffs. So are the Chiefs going to
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  Speaker 4: make it? And if they don't, they need to get
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  Speaker 4: rid of the salary cap.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think every dynasty eventually comes to it end.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen it with all great dynasties, and the run
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  Speaker 3: that we've had in Kansas City has been tremendous. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't given up aj all my teach, because they
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  Speaker 3: would be one of the most dangerous roll card to
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  Speaker 3: ever if they find a way. Now, they have to
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  Speaker 3: run the table to do so, and at the time
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  Speaker 3: that we're recording this, they will have to have to
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  Speaker 3: deal with that old Houston team coming in here on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday to try and get in the way. But it's
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  Speaker 3: got to start with them. And as I tell my
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  Speaker 3: Houston fans it ain't personal, it's just business. We got
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  Speaker 3: to do what we got to do. But now it's
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  Speaker 3: been a tremendous run and the city has been on
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  Speaker 3: fire around the Chiefs the Royals, of course, when they
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  Speaker 3: won this thing in twenty fifteen. It has been a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of drought. We made it back to the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs year before this year, and we were right there
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  Speaker 3: on the outside looking in, and if a few bounces
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  Speaker 3: had gone away, we might have gotten back in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm equally excited about next year's Royals team as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're building something. A great pigeon staff, the
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  Speaker 3: everyday lineup is really starting to shape up. We'll see
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  Speaker 3: what we do to address some of our outfield needs.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, now, winning sports is a part of Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City's history. But as I tell people, no, oh sports
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  Speaker 3: franchise one at the level of the Great Kansas City Monarchs.
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  Speaker 3: I love the Chiefs, I love the Royals, they don't
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  Speaker 3: even come close to the winning legacy of the Great
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City Monarchs, who had one losing season in their
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  Speaker 3: almost forty year existence in the Negro Leagues and Fellas.
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  Speaker 3: That was during World War two when so many of
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  Speaker 3: their stars had been called into service. But I am
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  Speaker 3: still holding on to my chiefs, making it in to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs and hopefully making another run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll never touch the Monarchs, I agree. And if
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  Speaker 1: you want to learn more about the Monarchs, then Bob
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  Speaker 1: is your guy. Go visiting please, And also he posts
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  Speaker 1: more on Twitter and a number of other sites where
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you can check out more information. But on Twitter, he's
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  Speaker 1: at NLBM pres pr z Bob. So great to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with you. We appreciate the time, love the hangs.
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  Speaker 1: Also love your iconic voice. Thank you, good to see
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  Speaker 1: you man.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to see you guy. When you make your
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  Speaker 3: way to Kansas City, come see me. Please give me
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  Speaker 3: a call. It would be my honor to take you
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: all on a personal guided tour of the Negro League
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  Speaker 3: Baseball Museum. But thank you all so much for this opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: this platform to help create greater interest in what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing here in Kansas City at the Negro League Baseball Museum.
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  Speaker 3: The campaign that we've got to build a new one.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Pitch for the Future and it is available
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  Speaker 3: online at www dot NLBM dot com. If anyone is
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  Speaker 3: so inclined to assist us on this next phase of growth.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: As I tell people, every buck counts, and I know
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  Speaker 3: my friend Uncle O'Neil would absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 1: He would like that. He would like that, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you again. Yes, everyone check out that site. This
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is a good weak forgiving as well.
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  Speaker 5: Bob.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Thanks again, and yes we will take you up on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that offer.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon, all right, Colers, appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,