Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: 1998 Print campaign
Robert SchnakenbergOVERVIEW
Billing itself as "the centerpiece of the historical renaissance of Negro Leagues baseball throughout the nation," the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) opened in Kansas City, Missouri, in January 1991. The museum was housed in small quarters in the Lincoln Building in the 18th and Vine Historic District but in the fall of 1997 moved into a new facility nearby. The museum's collection covered the leagues' entire history—from the earliest days of organized baseball after the Civil War through the final days of all-black baseball in the 1960s, preserving the...