Negro Leagues Baseball Museum — About

The museum’s own about page. States that the NLBM is “the world’s only national museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African American baseball”; that the “privately funded, 501 c3, not-for-profit organization was established in 1990 and is in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri’s Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District”; and that the museum “operates two blocks from the Paseo YMCA where Andrew ‘Rube’ Foster established the Negro National League in 1920.” Also states the sequence the museum’s own page gives for its premises: it “opened its doors to the public in a tiny, one-room office space in 1991,” and “In November of 1997, under the leadership of its late chairman John ‘Buck’ O’Neil,” moved into “its new 10,000 square-foot home inside a cultural complex known as the Museums at 18th & Vine.” National designation from the United States Congress came in July 2006. Site footer gives the address as 1616 E 18th St, Kansas City, MO.

NOTE FOR DRAFTERS: established 1990, opened to the public 1991, at the current 18th & Vine facility since November 1997. These are three different dates and they are not interchangeable.