Pastor Raul De La Matta of Love Revival Church will be the keynote speaker at Judson University s Spring 2021 Commencement Ceremonies on Saturday, May 8.
KC Tributes to Baseball Great Satchel Paige are Crumbling. Can His House be Saved? Breaking News
Near the center of Forest Hill Cemetery is a patch of grass called Paige Island. Baseball fans from around the world pay tribute there at the grave of one of the greatest pitchers to have ever climbed the mound.
Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige played for the Kansas City Monarchs and other Negro Leagues teams for decades before entering the majors late in a long career. He died a legend in 1982.
The Hall of Famer is also a tourist draw seven miles to the north of the cemetery at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on 18th Street.
Negro Leagues had their own two-way stars
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share-square-69939 Bullet Joe Rogan, Martín Dihigo and Leon Day.(Art by Graig Kreindler, from the collection of Jay Caldwell)
As Shohei Ohtani has renewed and expanded his rare role as a true two-way player for the Angels in 2021, the Babe Ruth comparisons have begun anew.
To attempt to both hit and pitch at an elite level is to be the Babe’s “spiritual successor,” as the New York Post recently put it. And so when Ohtani, who has often been referred to as the “Japanese Babe Ruth,” became the first pitcher to hit a home run from somewhere other than the No. 8 or 9 spot in the lineup earlier this month, there was a rush to the record books to confirm that Ruth was the last to do it. And on Monday, Ohtani became the first player since Ruth (on June 13, 1921) to make a start while simultaneously leading the Majors in homers.
A painting depicting (clockwise from left) Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Roy Campanella praying around a dinner table was unveiled at the Negro League Baseball Museum on Thursday â Jackie Robinson Day. The painting, titled âGrace,â took seven months to complete. JACK HARRIS/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS Jack Harris
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Bob Kendrick beamed with pride as he looked at the broken painting.
In black and gray strokes of charcoal and pastel, four men are depicted. They sit around a dinner table. Their hands are clasped together. Their heads are bowed as they say grace.