Roy Blunt: “last night, the Major League Baseball All- Star Game was hosted in Washington. In conjunction with that game, the Negro…”

“last night, the Major League Baseball All- Star Game was hosted in Washington. In conjunction with that game, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum hosted an event to honor the Homestead Grays, which was one of the teams from that league. There were great teams in that league. The Homestead Grays had won the Negro League World Series in 1943, which was 75 years ago. They had a great exhibit here in town about that team and about the history of that league. The museum, which was founded in 1990, is located in Kansas City, MO. It is dedicated to highlighting and preserving that important part of our sports history--the history of African-American baseball. Bob Kendrick runs that museum, and it is a museum I would encourage all of my colleagues to visit as the All-Star Game was in Kansas City a few years ago, and it was one of the venues for Major League Baseball. When people are in Kansas City, playing the Royals, managers and coaches often take their players there--players who haven't been there before and players who want to go back--just for them to have a sense of what it was like when there was the segregation of baseball and also some of the great players who played there. The chairman of the board, Stewart Myers, was here yesterday, and the vice chairman, Adam Sachs, was here yesterday. The museum is actually expanding and building the Buck O'Neil Research and Education Center on the Paseo in Kansas City.…”