It would be difficult to find someone more passionate about what they do for a living than Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City. More than 100 members of the Pirates’ organization — in Pittsburgh and in Bradenton, Fla. — witnessed that enthusiasm when he spoke to the group via Zoom on Friday as the team launched its diversity, equity and inclusion speaker series.
“We chose Bob to kick off this series here during Black History Month so he could talk about the long and rich history of Negro Leagues baseball and its impact on American culture, and the long, rich history of the Negro Leagues in Pittsburgh and the impact that had,” Pirates president Travis Williams said.
In February of 1920, Rube Foster brought eight Black baseball team owners together for a meeting in Kansas City and established the Negro National League — which Kendrick referred to as “the first organized, successful Black baseball league.” Until Jackie…
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