Would hear about contributions to the baseball world, including future hall of fame players and several innovations of the sport like the use of lights for night games. D eisenhower president ial library and museum hosted this hourlong event. I want to say good afternoon. Long event. First i want to say good afternoon, and i want to thank some people, of course, tim for giving me this opportunity to come down and speak with you today. Im really excited about it and samantha who handled a lot of the publicity for the event she did just a wonderful job and without people like that, also there was a local Radio Station that did a great interview, and between newspaper, radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit and so i want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you a little bit about why im here. The kansas city monarchs was a Negro League Baseball team and most of you have heard of them. Maybe you heard of Jackie R
For their wonderful work on the bliss of the. And i think former staffers teresa and i think former staffers for their aid with my archival and photo research. This book literally would not have been possible without their expertise and assistance. Since we are here on site, i want to set the scene at the white house of the confederacy, nextdoor. I want to make sure you know the setting before we get started. Can everyone hear me ok . Is that good . Book,oing to read from my winnie davis, daughter of the lost cause, from the introduction. The girls who loved the poison great, the girls to country true, can never in wedlock give their hands to those who were the blue. This is from a southern poem called true to the gray. Was april 1864, in richmond, virginia. The northern and Southern United States were locked in an epic battle for dominance over states rights and slavery. Thousands were being slaughtered every day. Richmond was literally surrounded by rivers of blood. Depressed and dow
Especially over the same period of time. Number one. Number two, truman was famous for being a walker. Every day he took his constitutional. Referring to the speed of the pedestrians in the competitive races, i think, and its hard to tell, we have no photographs much less moving pictures. Its a shame. Still the age of line drawings and engravings. The way people described westins walk sounds similar to what race walking is today. They said he had a wobbly walk, that he moved his hips. He swung his hips. I have a feeling that he walked fast. Much like modern race walkers do. As far as truman, you mentioned harry truman. He walked, i forget what it was. What was his old military pace of 60 steps a second or 60 steps a minute or something . He was famous for his walks. Liked to walk around washington. There is a good story where the secret service hated it. The secret service had been protecting fdr, you know, for 12 years and really didnt have to worry about fdr going on long walks. So t
President ial library and museum hosted this event. First, i want to say good afternoon and thank some people. Of course tim for letting me come and speak to you today. And of course samantha, who handled a lot of the publicity for the event. She did just a wonderful job. There was also a local Radio Station who did a great interview and between newspaper and radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit. I want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you why we are here. The kansas city monarchs were a Negro League Baseball team. Perhaps most of you have heard of them. Some of the great players maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige. Organized 1920, 1920 four and one the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. Way torying to figure a honor these brave men who purely play for the love of the game because they did not make great salaries back then. I decided i was going to visit 90 cities to commem
Next, baseball historian phil dixon talks about the kansas city monarchs, the longestrunning franchise in the history of baseballs negro leagues. The Dwight D Eisenhower president ial library and museum hosted this hourlong event. And museum hosted this hour long event. First i want to say good afternoon, and i want to thank some people, of course, tim for giving me this opportunity to come down and speak with you today. Im really excited about it and samantha who handled a lot of the publicity for the event she did just a wonderful job and without people like that, also there was a local Radio Station that did a great interview, and between newspaper, radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit and so i want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you a little bit about why im here. The kansas city monarchs was a Negro League Baseball team and most of you have heard of them. Maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Sat