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A pool? A skate park? The real story...
A reader was intrigued by a handful of concrete structures resembling skateboard ramps on a grassy area off The Paseo, near 58th Street and Lydia Avenue — and reached out to What’s Your KCQ?, a...
Railroad tycoon envisioned a grand...
Today, Guinotte Avenue is a rather unassuming stretch of road running through Kansas City’s predominantly industrial East Bottoms. One hundred seventy years ago, however, the thoroughfare was the...
Searching for Vincent O. Carter
June Graham, Guest Author Vincent O. Carter working at his home in Bern. ©P. Kräuchi In June 2023, I travelled to Kansas City to research the early life of Vincent O. Carter, an African American...
The strange case of Mr. Swope and Dr....
Images Courtesy Of The Jackson County Historical Society / Crysta Henthorne, KCUR 89.3. For more than a century, Kansas City has been haunted by the mysterious death of philanthropist Thomas Swope...
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When did Satchel Paige join the Kansas City Monarchs?
Legendary pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige, born in Mobile, Alabama, around 1906, began fine-tuning his arm in his teens and joined his first professional team, the Mobile Tigers, in 1924. Throughout the 1920s and '30s, Paige made a national name for himself pitching both for barnstorming baseball teams and established Negro Leagues clubs, including the Chattanooga Black Lookouts and the Pittsburgh Crawfords.