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Half a dozen who would have been good players who came up later. Interesting thing about Jackie Robinson, the brooklyn dodgers actually stole Jackie Robinson from the monarchs. They never compensated them. Wilkinson who owned the team and a man who had part ownership, they could not say anything, because they would be looked upon as holding the black player back if they were to argue this debate about why didnt you compensate us for this player. This is a business. So they didnt say anything. Quietly, they had their own boycott. No kansas city monarch plays for the dodgers again. Thats the way they boycotted. Brooklyn dodgers had many great players, but they didnt have guys who came from the kansas city monarchs. The monarchs sent more players to the big leagues than any other negro team. Do you have any record of anthony kansas in the monarchs . Sure. My dad played for anthony against the monarchs about 90 years ago, i think. Okay. If theres some way you could id really appreciate it.
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Game. They had to get themselves to d the game and t they had to buy their uniforms. Y t are you aware of how the players got paid . Oh, sure. The fortunate thing if you were playing for the kansas city monarchs, you are essentially y playing for the new york yankees of the negro league. Wilkin so wilkinson always paid his players. I have run into players over to years who told me that theyre t still waiting for their check from a game they played in 1928. But that wasnt the case with wilkinson. And rue foster as well. He kept immaculate records. Atse players made money playing in those games. Re those one of the reasons the bea monarchs were so successful bullet rogan was there until he retired. Newt allen was there from 1922 to 1946. The players came and they loved playing for j. L. Wilkinson, and they got paid well, and so theyo stayed. Money, butorked fheir they got paid well, and so d but, yeah, these werent pickups games. If they came toe abilene, theres going to be a promoter, a
And so we couldnt possibly find a better person in the history of sports and civil rights than dr. Harry edwards and he was gracious enough to lend his name to that lecture and we expect well have several presentations under that name in the coming years. Today is we have a conversation thats going to occur on the area of sports and civil rights. Ive been a part of many panels and many presentations over the years and normally you try and find the best panelists and the best people to make that presentation. Rarely do you have the people, the top people, who are presenting. In other words, if you had to pick one, two and three, rarely do you get one, two and three. Today were fortunate that we have probably the three most important people in the civil rights sports and society and sports and Civil Rights Movement in the last 50 years and were ecstatic, were pleased, were proud that we can present them and have a conversation with them with you today. So let me say that again. We have h