Kansas City Monarchs

One of those episodes is with Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

But we've had a significant number of Negro Leagues-related episodes in our five previous seasons, including one with Sam Allen, who actually played with the Kansas City Monarchs.

We've had a panel discussion with authors and researchers Larry Lester and Stephanie Liscio, which was recorded live in front of an audience at Cleveland's Historic League Park.

And we've had another episode with author and researcher Phil S. Dixon, who told us the story of how he was the one responsible for writing the words which appear on Satchel Paige's tombstone in Kansas City.

So, I mean, that's probably made up, but it sort of adds to the story that page was pretty, he'd love to drive.

And anyway, so to get back to your question, so I decided I would just keep track of everything on the chance that, you know, it might be helpful later.

For example, I keep track of if the Monarchs are playing a game on July 12, 1941, and Page didn't pitch, I still write it down because if I come across it some other time, I want to know that I already looked into it.

And I don't want to say, like, ooh, I didn't know about this game.

Then baseball.

He landed with the Kansas City Monarchs, and for yo- those of you who don't, don't know, the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues, they are like the New York Yankees now, or the Dodgers.

I mean, [laughs] they're the top.

And he played first base.

But he also played next to Satchel Paige.

He played against Josh Gibson.

He won a Negro League World Series with the Monarchs.

He served in the Navy during World War II, and then he came back and he won a batting title.

Baseball took him the rest of the way.

He signed with a team in Memphis and then with the Kansas City Monarchs in the leagues where Black men played because the other leagues were closed to them.

He played first base.

He went to war with the Navy and came back.

He became the manager of the Monarchs, and he managed them through the years when the leagues were shrinking around him.

When the Monarchs were sold, he went to scout for the Chicago Cubs, and in time, the Cubs made him a coach, the first Black coach in the major leagues.

The title was real.

The job was less than the title.

I'm going to say the Monarchs.

Yeah, it's the Kansas City Monarchs.

For those that don't know, it is a Negro League team.

All right, so this is from their 1920 season.

Nine seasons with the Detroit Stars.

Ten seasons with the Kansas City Monarchs.

Briefly played for the Chicago American Giants.

Negro League record holder in career saves as a pitcher.

Two, three.

Just a couple of guys from Elizabethan Tennessee Too far back in the sticks for the Negro Leagues But from 35 to 55, the hottest team around Couldn't find a better show when the Blue Greys came to town Played the Kansas City Monarchs and the Philadelphia Stars The Nashville Blues, the Nashville Cubs, all comers near and far.

Cracked the bat, climbed the mound, another perfect throw.

They took on every rival, but they also fought Jim Crow.