Event Schedule – 2020
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of Kansas – Fall On-Line Course “The Negro National League: A Journey Through the Stormy Seas of Professional Baseball ” November 11, November 18, & November 25 – 1 – 2:30 PM CST
For registration information click on “Available Sessions” link below or call 913-897-8530.
Course detail: OC211430 – As a reflection of the harsh racial attitudes in 1920, African American and dark-skinned Latino players were kept out of white professional baseball. Within this difficult racial environment black baseball team owner/manager Andrew “Rube’ Foster birthed the Negro National League on Feb. 13, 1920 in Kansas City, Missouri. It became the first successfully operated African American professional baseball league. 2020 is its 100th anniversary. Foster saw it as a ship travelling through the stormy sea of racial segregation. We will examine how despite closing down in 1931, it produced 13 Hall of Fame inductees and became the blueprint that sustained Negro League baseball until the color barriers in baseball were erased. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Kevin L. Mitchell is the baseball history blogger of The Baseball Scroll (
www.thebaseballscroll.blogspot.com) and author of Last Train to Cooperstown: The 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees from the Negro League Era. The Kansas City, Kan. native earned bachelors and master’s degrees from the University of Kansas.
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Available sessions
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of Kansas – Summer On-Line Course “NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL: THE DEEP ROOTS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICA’s NATIONAL PASTIME” July 28, August 4, & August 11 – 1 – 2:30 PM CST
For registration information click on “Available Sessions” link below or call 913-897-8530.
Course detail: OSH093 – Negro League Baseball: The Deep Roots of African Americans in America’s National Pastime
Excluded from the Major Leagues due to racial discrimination until the mid-20th century, African Americans formed their own professional baseball leagues. We will examine the deep roots African Americans have in America’s great game because of the Negro League era. We’ll see how the Negro leagues provided a vehicle for African Americans and dark-skinned Latino players to showcase their baseball talents despite racial and economic obstacles. Telling the stories of “Satchel” Paige, Josh Gibson and others, this course paints a true picture of Negro League baseball embedded in the fabric of 20th-century American history. INSTRUCTOR BIO: Kevin L. Mitchell is the baseball history blogger of The Baseball Scroll (
www.thebaseballscroll.blogspot.com) and author of Last Train to Cooperstown: The 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees from the Negro League Era. The Kansas City, Kan. native earned bachelors and master’s degrees from the University of Kansas.
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Scenes from 2018
Wichita, Kansas Public Library
Wichita, Kansas Public Library
Wichita, Kansas Public Library
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The University of Kansas Lawrence, Ks.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The University of Kansas Lawrence, Ks.
Scenes from 2017:
Leavenworth Rotary Club Luncheon – March 1, 2017
Leavenworth Rotary Club Luncheon – March 1, 2017
Oswald Park Recreation Center – Fort Lauderdale – April 6, 2017
Old Dillard Museum – Fort Lauderdale April 7, 2017
Presentation Audience Old Dillard Museum – Fort Lauderdale April 7, 2017
Franklin Park Recreation Center – Fort Lauderdale April 10
Tyrone Brant Library – Fort Lauderdale April 11
With Audience Tyrone Brant Library – Fort Lauderdale April 11
Coaching Kid Pitch Baseball – July/August 2017 Kansas City, KS.
Coaching Kid Pitch Baseball – July/August 2017 Kansas City, KS.
With Audience Mid-Continent Library Antioch Branch Kansas City, MO. – September 13, 2017
With audience at Mid-Continent Public Library Raytown, Mo. Branch October 10, 2017
With audience Mid-Continent Public Library South Independence, MO. Branch – October 24, 2017
With audience Mid-Continent Public Library South Independence, Mo. Branch – October 24, 2017
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