Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia philis who has just noted baseball with his moon homers when Hey with Buck O’Neil, a champion of the black players king a monumental race and eight decades inside and outside the field.
Howard was presented to O’Neil as a modern Josh Gibson, one of the best players of the black leagues that hit .466 for the Homestead Grays of 1943. Howard, who hit at least 45 homers four times in his career, was too embarrassed to accept the comparison.
“Mr. O’Neil said:” Do you have that power? “I said:” Yes, sir, I do, “said Howard.” He said: “Don’t be ashamed. Let him go out. ‘It was great, just listen to the stories and just be in his presence.”
O’Neil, who died in 2006, was champion of the Black Leagues Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Howard, who won an MVP of the National League and a world series with the Philis, is ready to assume the cause of O’Neil when the former toleter joined the impulse to help the museum’s expansion project.
The Black Leagues Baseball Museum is raising funds for a new installation and campus of 30,000 square feet, with the aim of advancing in the mission of the museum of preserving the rich history of black leagues baseball and its impact on social progress in the United States.
Howard’s manager and San Diego Padres, Mike Shildt, announced their plans on Thursday to join the black leagues “” Pitch for the Future “to provide greater awareness about the legacy of the black leagues with an expansion of the museum.
The president of the Black Leagues Museum, Bob Kendrick, said he hoped to raise $ 30 million to complete the project.
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“It is a tremendous indicator of the growth of your museum and the female interest in the subject that we have generated over the years and has dictated the need for us to grow in all the phases of our operations,” Kendrick said. “This is a growth byproduct.”
The interest in the black leagues has shot lately due to its inclusion in MLB the program and when the records of more than 2,300 players were incorporated into the major league baseball statistics. The museum that was founded in a small office space in a room in 1990 that attracts about 70,000 visitors every year more than the main players that stop at Duration Road Trips have passed their space in 18th and Vine.
Kendrick said the current space “was not designed to handle large crowds at any time.”
“In a perfect world, Kansas City will organize the World Cup next year,” said Kendrick, “and we would love to follow the energy and emotion of the World Cup with a great inauguration of the Black League Museum in 2027. That could be a bit.”
Howard toured the museum long before he was one of the dreaded Slugers in the National League.
“It was my way of paying tribute to the black leagues and former Black League players who did not have the opportunity to play in the big leagues,” Howard said.
Howard was always beaten by the field of legends-13 natural statues of the first black players included in the baseball hall in Cooperstown, New York, which deepened their understanding of the trip that the players took to meet.
“I think that is why it is important to keep the story in operation, keep it alive,” said Howard. “You must understand the history of black baseball and how it correlates with baseball, in general, and the major baseball leagues.”
The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the Florida Central found during its last published study players represented only 6.2% of the players on the List of the Opening of the MLB in 2023, below 7.2% in 2022. For the first time from Jacke from Jacke from the 1950s league baseball color barrier, there were no black players born in the United States in the United States Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 World Series.
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The former New York Mets slugger, Darryl Strawberry, said that during the weekend, MLB needed to concentrate on developing and marketing the game within the interior cities so that the percentage of black players increase substantially.
Howard said connecting young blacks with baseball has had their problems.
“It’s hard, try to help solve things,” said Howard. “I think there are now more young children who begin to return to baseball. You have to be able to turn on television and watch someone who looks like you.”
Howard was raised in Missouri and highlighted former black stars of St. Cardinals such as Willie McGee, Vince Coleman and Terry Pendleton who helped light their interest in sport. Howard and his MVP partner of the Jimmy Rollins National League were two black stars and fans with the Philis when they won their last World Series in 2008.
Shildt was a frequent visitor to the museum when he handled the Cardinals of San Luis and remained the expansion of the hope that the expansion would provide the necessary resources to educate a new generation of fans.
“There is a bigger story to tell,” said Shildt. “What the place of the tasks has a base oriented bone. They have been able to put the resources together to tell the complete and great image history.”
Associated Press reports.
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