Negro League's baseball hadn't been played in over 60 years, yet the life lessons that stem from this story of triumph over adversity.

They are as profound and significant today as ever before.

Now is the time for us to be bold and daring.

At the time of this recording of our episode of Black Diamonds,

where we will kind of expound on the exploits of the late great catcher, Raleigh Bids Mackie, some exciting news from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

We've made a historic announcement that we're going to build a brand new Negro Leagues baseball museum.

Yes, this museum, folks, that started in a one-room office in 1990.

Right across the street from where my office is now and right across the street from where the museum has recited since 1997, November of 1997, when we went from that one-room office into a 10,000 square foot exhibit that chronicle the story of black baseball in America in general, and of course, the professional

Negro Leagues specifically. I remember stepping into that one-room office back in 1993.

My first visit to this fledgling Negro Leagues baseball museum and walking into an office and the late Don

Motley was in that office when I knocked on the door and said, I'm looking for the Negro

League's baseball museum. He says, son, you're standing in it. And as I've oftentimes said,

little did I know that I had just literally walked into what would become my passion.

I fell in love with this story and I fell in love with the amazing athletes who made this story.

But three years prior to my involvement, the late great Buck O'Neill, and a number of local Negro leaguers who were still with us at that time,

it's so sad to say that all of them

have passed on now. But they literally took turns paying the monthly rent to keep that little

one room office open and with it our dreams of building a facility that would pay rightful tribute,

not only to one of the greatest chapters in baseball history,

but now millions of people over the last 26 years that we've been in this new space

have experienced one of the great chapters in American history.

And that's the rich, compelling, inspirational story of the Negro Leagues.

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