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For Negro Leagues Museum President, Stat Recognition is Bigger Than Baseball

By | May 29, 2024 | 0
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick speaks to members of the media May 29, 2024, about Major League Baseball’s decision to include Negro Leagues stats in official MLB record books.

The addition of Negro Leagues baseball players’ statistics to MLB’s record books is bigger than baseball. It’s a part of American history.

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Risks and Rewards of Playing High School Football

By | September 6, 2023 | 0
By the mid-1930s Kansas City area high school football players, like these members of the William Chrisman High School football squad in Independence, competed while wearing helmets and protective padded apparel.

Kansas City football history is littered with players killed and maimed playing the sport. It was so violent high school football once was banned for 13 years.

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‘Picklecon’ Coming to KC in 2024 With 100 Pickleball Courts

By | August 11, 2023 | 0
Kathy Nelson, Visit KC, KC Sports Commission.

In collaboration with Visit KC, Triple Crown Sports is bringing its inaugural celebration of pickleball to Kansas City in August 2024.

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Whopper Catfish Lurk in the Missouri River Downtown

By | June 30, 2023 | 1
Angler John Jamison holds a 68-pound fish he caught in the Kansas River near downtown.

The Missouri River near downtown Kansas City is home to some giant catfish. Just ask the anglers who catch fish weighing more than 100 pounds there.

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Building Up Low-Income Youth in Lawrence with Skateboards

By | May 26, 2023 | 0
A pink skateboard with the letters "ZAE" painted on. In Lawrence, Kansas local community and skate leaders compiled their gently used extra parts to give kids who live in low-income housing a chance at skate culture.

Lawrence community leaders and skaters saw a need they could fill and stepped up, offering low-income youth free skateboards.

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