KANSAS CITY -- About 42,000 vehicles cross the Broadway Bridge each day. It is, by far, the busiest bridge in the area, as it connects one community to another.
And as almost every speaker at the bridge renaming ceremony pointed out Thursday morning, it is so fitting that the bridge now will be called the John Jordan 'Buck' O'Neil Memorial Bridge because Buck O'Neil made it his life's work to connect communities.
About 200 people packed inside the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for the ceremony honoring the legendary O'Neil, a great ambassador to baseball and the NLBM who barnstormed with Satchel Paige with the Kansas City Monarchs.