Celebrate the Negro League's baseball museum's pitch for the future.

With your donation, you can help bring Buck O'Neill's vision to life,

with the construction of the Buck O'Neill Education and Research Center,

as well as the brand new Negro Leagues baseball museum

on the historic site of the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, where the Negro National League was founded in 1920.

We're building the nation's only Negro Leagues campus, an international hub for Negro Leagues and social history.

Yes, a transformative complex so that future generations will be inspired by those who dared to dream.

To donate, visit nlbm.com slash pitch for the future.

We changed it.

Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Nucca, we changed these things.

We made these changes because we had to make these changes.

We couldn't be major league baseball players and we could not be men

unless we did something about changing these wrongs,

writing these wrongs, and they were wrong,

and we changed them.

I vividly remember walking through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum with my dear friend

the late great Buck O'Neill, on any number of tours that we kind of tag teamed together, taking whether they were potential corporate partners or other dignitaries through the museum.

But when you first walk into the gallery space, there's a simple photograph

of a young kid and he's kind of laying on the ground. There is a baseball bat in front of him and he has

both hands as he's laying on the ground on his chin, on either side of his chin.

And Buck loved that picture.

Because for Buck, that symbolized a kid daring to dream about playing this game.

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