To celebrate a game-changing century, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was planning to have a “game-changing” year in 2020.
That’s how Bob Kendrick, president of the Kansas City-based museum, described it — a year-long long celebration of the Negro Leagues’ 100th anniversary that was to feature events in ballparks across the country, in front of fans across the sport, but would always be centered in Kansas City, where the first official Negro League was founded a century before.
“We were off and running, we were off to a flying start,” Kendrick said, speaking from his office during the summer.