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Kansas City Royals Announce Incredible Gesture For Month of February

The Kansas City Royals have announced that they, and their foundation, will be covering admission to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for anyone who visits in February.

Brady Farkas

Kansas City Royals Announce Incredible Gesture For Month of February
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The Kansas City Royals announced an incredible gesture on Tuesday that will affect visitors to Kansas City for the month of February. 

Per Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star:

The Royals announced they and the Kansas City Royals Foundation (formerly Royals Charities) will cover the cost of entrance for anyone visiting the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum during the month of February.

Per a release on the initiative, this is the third year in a row that the Royals have been a part of "Free February."

“We are excited to help Kansas Citians learn about the incredible story of the Negro Leagues,” said Luis Maes, Royals Vice President of Community Impact. “It’s a story about baseball as well as American history and our struggles and progress in civil rights. The NLBM is the only museum in the world dedicated to bringing this incredible story to life and we are fortunate to have it in our backyard.”

In 2023, more than 14,000 people, including many school and youth groups, visited the museum during February and the foundation wrote a check to the museum for $120,000.

“We are thrilled that the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Royals Foundation are once again providing admission to the museum free of charge for the entire month of February,” said Bob Kendrick, NLBM President. “The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a tremendous educational resource and is one of the nation’s most important Civil Rights and Social Justice institutions. We hope that students and adults alike will take advantage of this generous gesture to learn how America’s unsung baseball heroes helped change the game and America too.”

February is Black History Month, so the gesture takes on added meaning undoubtedly.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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