We felt it was important not to tell it from the curator's perspective, but from the black experience perspective.

And that's really, I think what comes through when you walk through this exhibit is that we're telling it a different way than what we have before.

This is not a one and done thing. We're committed to telling the story for generations to come.

2024 has been one of the most important years in recent memory for me as it relates to the history

of the Negro Leagues. And of course, the Negro Leagues and of course the Negro Leagues

Baseball Museum. It's been a year filled with tremendous milestones. One of those milestones

was the opening of a new baseball exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame called the Souls of the

Game Voices of Black Baseball.

And I was so deeply honored to be invited to be one of the advisors on this epic project that the Hall of Fame embarked on several years ago to comb and pulled us together for a wonderful exhibit and was there

in May of this year, May 24th of this year when the exhibit opened in a very special sneak preview

for all of us who had been a part of helping shape this exhibit and for

for Hall of Fame's VIP guests, underwriters and so forth. It is a magnificent

exhibit that looks at the complete history of black folks in this game. And it really is

important because it's not a new revelation that black folks were playing

this game. We've been playing this game going back to the 1800s. There's some evidence that we

played the game as enslaved people. So it was not a new phenomena for blacks to play baseball. And this exhibit

really takes you through those early days of African American participation in our game,

all the way through the Negro leagues, through the present day, and a lot of it is done through

the voices of many of those African American and Hispanic baseball players who are still with us.

And it's an extraordinary exhibit.

I encourage everyone, if you get the opportunity to make your way there to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, to experience it.

And it was very, very important.

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