The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball art from architecture By Patrick Alley and Dona

By Patrick Alley and Dona Boley for the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association

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which eventually resulted in the Jayhawks winning the 2008 NCAA National Championship

The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball art from architecture By Patrick Alley and DonaCharter members of the Negro National League, stepping stone for Jackie Robinson, home base for Satchel Paige, and training ground for more than twenty blacks sent to the major leagues, the Kansas City Monarchs survived the entire thirty five year span of black baseball (from 1920 to mid 1950) and were widely regarded as the dominant black professional team, "the New York Yankees of the Negro leagues." Rich in anecdote and illustrated with more than