Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Episode one is this extended riff on like, we've never been back to Kansas City with Ted.

And here come all the characters from England who are going to come and And what's Ted up to? And we're going to go to the Negro Leagues Museum, which it actually is.

And we're going to go to a women's soccer match and we're going to get barbecue.

And it's going to be, you know, and all of that.

That's kind of been the evolution of this.

Tom Cruise came to the first game of the season and then spent an hour in downtown Kansas City going to the Negro League Baseball Museum.

I think those are the stories that have just kind of taken over the most.

since they've been married is the expectation now is that she's going to be there.

The coolest thing about this portrait, though, is that I did a color study for it years ago.

And this, along with a lot of other color studies I did of various Negro and Latin American leaguers, was displayed at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

And during the reception for this opening of this show, Uh, I'm kind of walking around and there's someone looking at this exact portrait, uh, or at least a color study of this exact portrait, looking at it and really kind of taking it in.

And he sees me and he turns around and he shakes my hand and he says, you know, I, you really got, you really got him right.

Oh, yeah.

Tomorrow night, man, at the History Museum, Bob Kendrick from the Negro League Museum over in Kansas City, he and I are doing a sit-down.

at the museum as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cardinal baseball winning the first World Series.

And the History Museum has done a phenomenal job of bringing in different speakers throughout the course of the year.

Uh, thanks for asking.

Uh, Bob Kendrick, uh, who is the curator for the Negro League Museum over in Kansas City and I are going to have a sit-down at the m- uh, History Museum on Tuesday a- and talk about the contributions that the Negro Leagues has made to baseball.

Uh, and I know there are a lot of people who maybe think that, well, you know, these guys were just good players.

There, there were some things that they were able to introduce to the game, like night baseball and some other things when it came to, uh, equipment, that we'll get into, and just talk about some of the great players that w- that went through that era.

This is The Ref.

[upbeat music] So here's the interesting thing as it pertains to me and Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, is that, and I thought about this 'cause Papa Boganowski texted in the Negro League Museum, which you're absolutely right, the Negro Museum is cool as hell.

And if you folks have not been to the Negro Leagues Museum, you need to go.

Please go.

Please go.

Homestead Greys.

Yeah.

I, uh, I remember I called my dad when, when I was about to go to the Negro League Museum, and I was like, "You want me to get you something?" He's like, "Uh, yeah.