1923 Historical Baseball Program Scorecard Muelebach Field Dedicated Jly 3 1923

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This is a Historical Baseball Program from a game played at Muelebach Field Dedicated July 3 1923.
This game was between the home team Kansas City Blues and the Toledo Mud Hens. Muelbach Field is also famous for being the home of the famous Negroe League Champions team, Kansas City Monarchs who started playing there in 1923 and on through 1955. They won the first ever Negro Leagues World Series in 1924.  Many baseball stars and Hall of Famers played with the KC Monarchs including the likes of Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Ernie Banks, Jackie Robinson,  Willard Brown etc.  I have included some other history on Muelebach Field below that I found in various articles on line for historical references. The condition of the program is at least Very Good as seen.  The one negative is the centerfold is loose. Great baseball history here.
Muehlebach Field
was built in 1923 for the minor-league Kansa City Blues for 0,000. It was named for Blues owner George E. Muehlebach, who also owned Kansas City businesses including Muehlebach Beer and the Muehlebach Hotel. It was located in the inner-city neighborhood near 18th and Vine to house the minor-league white Kansas City Blues baseball team and the Negro League Kansas City Monarchs.
The first Negro League World Series game was held at the stadium in 1924.
The stadium consisted of a single-decked, mostly covered, grandstand, extending from the right-field foul pole down and around most of the left-field line. When the New York Yankees bought the Blues as its top farm team in 1937, the stadium was renamed Ruppert Stadium in honor of the Yankees' owner, Col. Jacob Ruppert.  Ruppert died two years later and the stadium was renamed Blues Stadium in 1943.
The stadium was home to both the minor-league Kansas City Blues of the American Association and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1954.  The Kansas City A's played here from 1955 to 1967, the Kansas City Royals from 1969 to 1972, and the Kansas City Chiefs (American Football League and National Football League) from 1963 to 1971.
The stadium hosted the 1960 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game). Municipal Stadium was the site of the longest NFL game in history, in a playoff game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins on Christmas Day, 1971.
Jackie Robinson played at the stadium for the Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 until he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers.  Hall of Famers included  Bullet Rogan, J. L. Wilkinson, José Méndez, Satchel Paige, Hilton Smith, and Willard Brown all played for the Monarchs at Meuhlebach Field, to name a few.
The Kansas City Blues were one of the eight founding members of the American Association and was an original tenant of Municipal Stadium.  Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, Al Rosen, Billy Martin, Bill Virdon, Johnny Mize and Elston Howard were some of the players in the Yankees farm era who played for the Blues. There were about 580 Blues players who went on to the Major Leagues.  On September 17, 1964, The Beatles played the stadium as part of their first U.S. tour. The date was originally supposed to be an off-day for the band, but they agreed to perform when Finley offered their manager, Brian Epstein, a then-record sum of 0,000.
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