Officials have broken ground on a new Negro League Legends Hall of Fame Museum on the 900 block of 12th Street N.E. last week, according to the Common Demoninator. When completed in Spring of 2005, the museum will honor the nearly 3,000 players who played in the segregated baseball league from 1920 to 1960:
The D.C. museum wont be the first dedicated to the Negro Baseball League. Kansas City, Kan., already is home to one, and there are plans for museums in Birmingham, Ala., and Philadelphia.
“I think every city should have a Negro League museum Its like a library — you cant just have one,” said [Founder Dwayne R.] Simms, who added that the Negro League was often overlooked in the history of American sports.
Also, listen to NPR interview Buck O’Neill about the museum last January.
