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Sit and just take in the indoor baseball field with the bronze statues. It's magical!
[Jennifer Booker, 09/26/2019]Negro Leagues Baseball Museum:- Address:
- 1616 E. 18th St., Kansas City, MO
- Directions:
- I-70 exit 3A. Drive south five blocks, turn left onto 18th St., and drive two blocks. On the left.
- Phone:
- 816-221-1920
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
Negro League Baseball Museum Opens
A new and expanded Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has opened in Kansas City, featuring legends and milestones of the historically segregated ball teams. Its centerpiece is the Field of Dreams, where life-sized bronze statues of ten Hall of Famers stand around a scaled-down baseball diamond.
The museum pays tribute to great players who are unknown to baseball fans, because they spent their entire careers segregated from the major leagues. They played for teams like the Brooklyn Brown Dodgers and the Birmingham Black Barons. The museum has chosen not to feature statues of former Negro Leaguers like Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, who are amply deified at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Sept. 2019: Photo added.
[11/02/1997]- Kansas City, Missouri - World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball
It appears to be owned by the soccer field and fenced off as private property. Guess you can only see it during soccer season.
[Sheila Minogue, 03/27/2023]World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball:- Directions:
- At the entrance to the Western Missouri Soccer League fields on NE 76th St. just west of I-435.
- Status:
- Gone
- Kansas City, Missouri - World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball
The field is about one mile west of the address [previously] listed. Use this address to find the field (and ultimately the soccer ball): 5701 NE Soccer Drive, Kansas City, MO. The area is fenced off and the gates to the lot were closed at 11am when I visited. So as stated, as long as they're open.
[Benjamin Lee, 05/30/2018] The soccer field itself is easy to find. The soccer ball is practically hidden in a clump of trees. What is also interesting is a small office shaped like an soccer ball not far from the monument. We love soccer so we had to see it, but we wouldn't be surprised if there's a larger one or someone will make one soon.
[James, 08/04/2012]
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