KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first thing you see when you walk in is Buck O’Neil on the video board telling a story. Maybe it’s the story about Jackie Robinson and the gas station.
Maybe it’s the story about why Satchel Paige called him Nancy. Maybe it’s the story of Hank Aaron in the Negro Leagues as a cross handed swinging shortstop.
Whatever.
The specific story does not matter, or at least not as much as it matters that it’s being told, and told here, in this stadium, Legends Field, where a team called the Kansas City Monarchs played baseball for the first time in 56 years on Tuesday night.
