The dwight d. Eisenhower president ial library 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 Satchel Paige. They were organized in 1920, 194 they won the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. I was trying to figure a way to honor these great men who purely played for t
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
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 Satchel Paige. They were organized in 1920, 194 they won the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. I was trying to figure a way to honor these great men who purely played for the love of the game because they didnt make great salaries
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
Be heading to the bay area . Well be sitting down with dan richards chairman of the group putting this together saying we have this in the valley. We have this in Southern California. Maybe las vegas. But what about here . There is criticism for the project and this is the man in charge of the whole thing. Phil will be sitting down with him. A project today that everyone got around. Of course, bat kid. He is back. He inspired all of us but he also inspired some film makers. We have a live interview this morning in studio with the director of this new project. Lots coming up. Lets get a quick check of your Weather Forecast today. Another cloudy and foggy start. You cant even see the Golden Gate Bridge there from our live camera. And temperatures right now in the upper 40s and lower 50s. It is going to be another relatively cool day around the bay. So cloudy start dense fog in some spots. Plenty of clouds and chance of showers north of the Golden Gate Bridge later on today. Well take a c