|
USA-IA-SANBORN AVE Κατάλογοι Εταιρεία
|
Εταιρικά Νέα :
- The KKK And Baseball History | Only A Game - WBUR
Some 77 years ago, a team of all-black players met a team of Ku Klux Klan members on the baseball diamond Fletcher Powell of KMUW in Wichita has the story
- Wichita Monrovians - Wikipedia
The Wichita Monrovians were a Negro league baseball team in the 1920s The team is most notable for beating the Ku Klux Klan in a baseball game in 1925 [1] They were formerly known as the Black Wonders and were later incorporated as the Monrovian Corporation [1]
- The Wichita Monrovians - Wichita Life
The Wichita Monrovians were an All-Black baseball team that beat the KKK in June 1925 I want to provide a little more context into their history as well as that storied game
- June 21, 1925: Black Baseball Team Beats Klan Players
On June 21, 1925, the Wichita Monrovians, an all-Black semi-pro baseball team that promised to take on all challengers, bested the Wichita Klan Number 6 — a squad fielded by the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization
- Hidden History: 1925 baseball game between Klan, Negro league team - KSN-TV
In their short time the all-black Wichita Monrovians experienced baseball success, winning 52 of their first 60 games in the Colored Western League according to Wichita baseball hobbyist and
- When the Klan played an all-black baseball team
In the regrettable era of segregated baseball, the Wichita Monrovians were a short-lived success story The franchise started in 1920 as the Black Wonders
- Beating the KKK, giving back and more: Wichita’s 1st all-Black baseball . . .
Though many of their accomplishments are lost to history, Black baseball was difficult to sustain and the Monrovians lasted longer than most They produced three players who played for the Kansas
- The Black Baseball Team That Beat the KKK - Medium
In June of 1925, twenty-two years before Jackie Robinson would become the first black player in Major League Baseball, the Monrovians played an exhibition game against a traveling team, the Klan
- 1920s Wichita Monrovians – Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame
On June 21, 1925, the Monrovians played the Wichita champter of the Ku Klux Klan, Klan No 6, at Island Park The Wichita Beacon advised that “strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument” would not be allowed in the ballpark
- Early baseball teams barnstormed barriers - The Active Age
In the early years of Wichita baseball, teams were strictly segregated The Cudahy Packing Company, a major employer in the 1920s, sponsored two teams One, called the Rex and made up of black players, would succeed the Monrovians as the city’s best black team
|
|