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The Kansas City Blues were a minor league baseball team located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. The team was one of the eight founding members of the American Association. [1] The Blues did not field particularly competitive teams until 1918, when they won the AA pennant. The team won again in 1923, and again in 1929.
18th and Vine is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses . Along with Basin Street in New Orleans , Beale Street in Memphis , 52nd Street in New York City , and Central Avenue in Los Angeles , the 18th and Vine area ...
A former Vegas nightclub singer got this advice: “When you go someplace else and experience something that interests you, figure out a way to bring it home.” She’s doing it, every Friday night.
Exterior of a juke joint in Belle Glade, Florida, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1941. Juke joint (also jukejoint, jook house, jook, or juke) is the African-American vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
Midtown/Plaza is entirely within Kansas City, Missouri with a population of 40,355. [7] It is just south of downtown, and bounded by 31st Street on the north, the state line on the west, West Gregory Boulevard (71st Street) on the south, and Troost Avenue on the east. Midtown/Plaza, the core of the metropolitan area, has many cultural ...
Kansas City Blues (1885–1901), an early minor-league baseball team; Kansas City Blues (American Association), a 1902–54 minor-league baseball team; Kansas City Blues (NFL), a Kansas City-based NFL team in 1924; Kansas City Blues (AFL), a 1934 American Football League team; Kansas City Blues (rugby union), a Rugby Super League team founded ...
Based on a loose affiliation with both University of Missouri-Kansas City and Rockhurst College, the Kansas City Blues Rugby Club was established in 1966. The founding members focused on developing a unique club identity and culture. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Blues elevated their rugby knowledge and skills, becoming successful in the ...
During some years when the annual Missouri–Kansas football game was played in Kansas City, Association Park hosted the game in 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1909. Both the Blues and the Monarchs moved to the new and nearby Muehlebach Field in July 1923.