Kansas City, Missouri is a major sports town.

It's the home of the two-time World Series champs, the Kansas City Royals,

and of course, the four-time Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs.

But they pale in comparison to the winning legacy of the Kansas City monarchs.

This is Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro League Baseball Museum.

In their 40 years in the Negro leagues, the Kansas City Monarchs won 10 league

championships and only had one losing season. Some say the

Kansas City monarchs were the Yankees of the Negro leagues. Those that know

better say the New York Yankees are the monarchs of the Major League's.

It's been over half a century since the monarch stopped dominating the Baseball Diamond

and the Negro League ceased operation.

Today, the legacy of the Negro League's League's Baseball Museum, nestled in the city that hosted its finest

franchise.

As you're walking through the museum, you'll see images of some of the

greatest players of all time you'll read

about the impact the league had on black communities on and off the field and you'll

learn about innovations that change the sport forever. My name is Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we go to Kansas City, to the Negro League's Baseball Museum to hear how a league born

out of exclusion was inclusive, innovative, and an institution all the way till its final

days. When you'll walk into the Negro League's Baseball Museum, you'll see a baseball diamond with life-sized statues of the greatest players to play in the Negro League on it,

all posing as if they're about to get started playing a game.

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