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
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
Scoreboard and hear the you know, hear the music between plays. The music all the time it is so loud i dont know why it is so loud in stadiums today. You cant even talk but thats just my thing. But you really do see a direct line between pedestrianism and modern professional sports. And most of the pedestrians tried to switch to bicycles but they werent very good at it. But two of the pedestrians, Edward Westin and Daniel Oleary they continued to stage walking expeditions well into their 80s. Westin walked from new york to San Francisco in about 1907 and again sold one of these pamphlets along the way. He did a walk from new york to minneapolis and sold a pamphlet and the sponsor was the packard car company. Westin did not like cars just because he thought they made people walk less. Iconically, westin, in 1927 was crossing a street in manhattan and was hit by a car. And was left crippled and never walked again and died two years later at the age of 90. Oleary fared a little better. He