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KANSAS CITY, MO Happy weekend, Kansas City! As more local businesses and venues reopen and it becomes safer to gather in small groups, don t miss what s new on your Kansas City Patch community calendar. Here s a roundup of local events coming up in the area this weekend.
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As a Minor Leaguer in the Padres’ system, right-hander David Bednar notched 39 saves, including 14 at Double-A Amarillo in 2019.
Featuring a fastball, a splitter/slider hybrid dubbed the “splider” and a curveball, he has all the makings to be a future late-innings closer for the Pirates. But if you
Jun. 2 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is unveiling its first new exhibition since the pandemic hit Kansas City more than a year ago. "Testimony: African American Artists Collective," spotlighting 36 local artists, will open June 5. It is the first of five new exhibitions, called "Past, Present, Future," that will fill the museum's Bloch Building galleries through March. The others are .
Negro League collection created in collaboration withÂ
CC Sabathia. The new lifestyle items highlight teams such as theÂ
New York Black Yankees,Â
Kansas City Monarchs, and theÂ
Homestead Grays and pays homage to iconic athletes such asÂ
Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and more that changed the game of baseball in America.
Roots of Fight worked closely with World Series champion, Cy Young Award winner, and one of the famed âBlack Acesâ,Â
CC Sabathia to release this powerful collaboration. Sabathia coordinated the program at itâs launch in 2020, acting as Creative Director and partnered the brand with the Major League Baseball Players Association, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and estateâs of various late players to make this collection come to life.
The Milwaukee streetcar containing images of the Negro Leagues and the Milwaukee Bears.
A Milwaukee streetcar will be wrapped with images of the city s Negro Leagues baseball team for the rest of this year.
The Milwaukee Brewers and a Wisconsin bank have partnered to honor The Milwaukee Bears, who played just in 1923. The campaign will also honor the Negro Leagues, which organized in 1920 after years of Black players not being let into the American and National Leagues and operated for about 40 years throughout much of the U.S.
The idea to put images on the Milwaukee streetcar came from a nationwide challenge issued by Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick, after he led a similar effort in the museum s home of Kansas City, Missouri.