Steve Penn, KC Star: Buck O’Neil’s rookie season is a page-turner

Star:Phil S. Dixon, a Negro Leagues baseball historian, has written a new book on the late Buck O’Neil.“John Buck O’Neil, the Rookie, the Man, the Legacy, 1938″ examines his rookie season with the Kansas City Monarchs as each game is played.Related Posts:The Star: Texas ends K-State’s Big 12 baseball tournament runWSJ on ML Baseball: Are Rookies Taking Up Rotation Spots?Star: K-State, KU bow out of Big 12 baseballRoyals 2009 game times releasedGeorge Will Sotomayor didn’t ’save’ but ‘damaged’ ba

Kansas City Deserves Better

Although I was born and raised in the large city to the East in Missouri, my heart clearly belongs to Kansas City. This is where I completed my training and also become a fanatic of the city’s teams. Unfortunately, despite its loyal fans, K.C. often has been treated harshly by its franchises. Now, during the dead period in the NFL while coaches and players are vacationing prior to initiation of training camp, is an excellent time to review Kansas City sports history. The Kansas City Monarchs

Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

Though he is, indeed, a legendary figure, and though baseball fans of a certain age, namely mine, can’t have avoided great Satchel Paige stories even if, for some idiotic reason, they’d have chosen to do so, there’s much I didn’t know about Satchel Paige until I read Larry Tye’s new book. I did not know, for example, that when J.L. Wilkinson signed Satchel to the Kansas City Monarchs for the 1941 season, “he enlisted New York playwrights Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman to help script the pitch