The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and its president, Bob Kendrick, are incredibly busy these days.
Kendrick is telling the story of the Negro Leagues in a new way, as a part of the "Storylines" series on the popular video game "MLB The Show 25." Kendrick says the collaboration is a way of increasing interest in this history among younger generations.
Meanwhile, the Kansas City museum is pushing to expand dramatically by building a new $30 million complex on The Paseo.
Kendrick told KCUR's Up To Date that the museum will create what he calls the nation's "first Negro Leagues campus" as a gateway into the Historic 18th and Vine district.
"(The museum) started in a one room office (and was later) recognized as America's National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum after we built our current home," Kendrick said.
"Now, of course, it's the realization of a dream to build a brand new, 30,000+ square foot, state-of-the-art Negro Leagues Baseball Museum that will be anchored adjacent to the former Paseo YMCA — now the Buck O'Neil Education and Research Center — the very building where the Negro Leagues were established in 1920."
- Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
