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In the birthplace of the Negro Leagues, Mariners triumph

On February 13, 1920, Andrew “Rube” Foster gathered a few other Midwestern team owners together for a meeting in the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster had been a dominant pitcher for the Philadelphia Cuban X-Giants, recording 44 game wins in a row in 1902 and earning the nickname “Black Christy Mathewson,” so it was unsurprising that he approached this meeting with a game plan already in place. He arrived with an official charter document for the Negro National League already prepared, and within that day they formed the Negro National League.