I played well and played at the Homestead Grades, which was one of the better teams in the country.

The time, that was in uh, 1942.

We beat them four in a row.

Four hundred a row.

That was with Josh Gibson and all those great ball players. How'd you doing a series?

Hey, I think I hit near 400.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the 19th anniversary of the 1942 Kansas City Monarchs winning the Negro League World Series that season.

Buck O'Neill always called that team his favorite monarchs team.

And for good reason, that team had some sensational talent on it. And Buck O'Neill was one of those

stars of that 1942 team that would go on to face the vaunted homestead grays in the

1942 Negro League World Series, a matchup of two titans of grand proportion.

And as you could well imagine, there was a lot of drama around this particular series.

And so here, as we prepare to celebrate and commemorate the 80th anniversary of that with the restoration of Monarch Plaza, right on the corner of 22nd in Brooklyn where the monarchs called home for so many years.

As a matter of fact, they started playing there at a stadium by the time it was retired was known as Municipal Stadium.

And the Monarchs began playing there in 1923.

And they won their last World Series in 1942, albeit they only played one game at the site of old municipal stadium.

It went through several iterations of names.

It was once known as Milbach Field and Rupert Stadium and

Blue Stadium and then ultimately Municipal Stadium. And so the museum has taken on a major initiative

to restore what is called Monarch Park right on the corner of 22nd in Brooklyn, where so much history was made.

The great Buck O'Neill, a Kansas City monarchs legend, speaking to Negro League's baseball museum curator, Dr. Raymond Doswell.

And it was always exciting here.

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