An Evening with Michael Travis discussing Kansas Baseball

The Sunflower State and Its Passion

Author Michael Travis shares his love for the game , rounding its bases from the beginnings in Wichita with League 42 to the Major Leagues.

Baseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leagues due to racism. Learn about the sixteen-year-old signed by the Kansas City Athletics, who left the University of Kansas campus to play his first game at Municipal Stadium the next day. Read about pioneers in the game named Joyce, Katie and Alex, determined and talented women who are part of our national pastime.

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