Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Through the inspiration of Horace M. Peterson III (1945-1992) founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, a group of local historians, business leaders, and former baseball players came together to create the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the early 1990s. It functioned out of a tiny, one room office in the Lincoln Building, which is situated in the Historic eighteenth & Vine Jazz District of Kansas City, MO. It speedily incorporated, built a board of directors and staffing, and created a licensing program to support operations.