KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Any time a current major leaguer walks into the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick likes to provide insight into the hardships endured by the players of yesteryear.
The NLBM president since 2011 and a longtime employee, Kendrick has regaled many current and former big leaguers with tales of legends Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Buck O’Neil and the difficult times those players faced to play baseball.
One passage Kendrick often recounts to deliver more awareness is how Paige in 1938 received $1 of meal money per day from a Mexican League club that signed him in the hopes of making a big splash to challenge Major League Baseball, which had yet to be integrated.