Show C6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday February 22 2004 Art exhibit chronicles Negro baseball Leagues LOUISVILLE Ky(AP) — of the story before" In 1920 the Negro National League became the first fully organized baseball league for black players who were shunned by the majors the Eastern Colored League was established in darker depiction showing a lone pitcher concentrating on his task Artist Lonnie Powell said he was trying to convey the black struggle for acceptance in baseball as well as society “The piece had to portray the dignity of a people forced to live through a shameful time in our history" Powell held by bronze pair of hands The hands belong to Negro Leaguers “Double Duty” Radcliffe Byron “Mex” hat a and Johnson and Buck O’Neil baseball bat at his side who gained fame for his in Ken Four children in tattered Bums' 1994 documentary drab clothes surround him “Baseball” 1923 each holding a piece of baseball equipment Now 92 O’Neil is the subRobinson broke the major shoe store and A league color barrier in 1 947 ject of four grainy wlwn he joined the Brooklyn barber shop complete the wrote photographs taken in 2003 urban scene July by Steve Wilson Dodgers Kendrick said the Negro The show O'Neil in a pictures Jazz from the 940s proThe atmospheric portrait museum Leagues gathered the ' uni- Kansas Monarchs backKadir sets a Nelson vides in in City musical artists Kansas fitting painted by City form with a as a ballpark a somber mood for “Shades March 2003 and gave them a ground as patrons at the bat browse an Greatness" art museum of exhibit the widely backdrop daylong lesson on the league’s O’Neil saw the exhibit in on view at the Louisville diverse works in “Shades of history Museum 28 Greatness" Kansas by After that left produced Slugger City last fall Each to they were artists work stirred deep emotions collection The their creativity chronicles the “It probably took me longer “We really didn’t want “Sunday Best" by Keith to walk through there than it Shepherd is splashed with Negro Leagues that were crethem to focus on phdtorealis- ated 84 years ago this month would the average person tic depictions We wanted bright colors portraying a crowd wildly and existed into the 1960s because them to interpret what they they would say ’Yeah I heard about this and I long after Jackie Robinson ' cheering the Kansas City saw tap into their imaginaMonarc hs who captured three heard about dial”’ O'Neil integrated the major leagues tions” Kendrick said Negro League pennants from The Louisville museum is museum was said in an interview with The The Louisville 1923-2- 5 Associated Press the First stop for the traveling chosen for the first show simshow which was launched by Games became gatherings “I was there It was special ply because the museums where spectators mingled the Negro Leagues Baseball have coordinated other being there and knowing what Museum in Kansas City Mo it was all about regardless of social standing exhibits in the past Kendrick ' Shepherd explains in an said “It’s one of the most imporAn oil depiction by Jared accompanying tant things we've ever done" caption Kraus of Josh Gibson the The Slugger museum chronsaid Bob Kendrick the Negro icles the history of the world's home “People whether they were Negro Leagues’ a farmer mortician' home- League museum's marketing most famous baseball bats and run king rekindled O’Neil’s maker mechanic barber or director memories of a game between ' shows how they are made in owner came' hotel out O’Neil’s Monarchs and Gib- “It's another way to introBut the Negro Leagues droves dressed to impress" it son’s Homestead Grays duce Negro Leagues baseball exhibit features only three reads to a sector of the population “We got them down by a Louisville Slugger bats — who may not have been aware “Looking Him Back’’ is a simple stock models each couple of runs” O’Neil recalled “A young guy on their team gets up in the ninth inning and he gets on base ' AP Photo We get one guy out we get the next guy out and then here '' John Conway of Knoxville Tenn takes a tour of the "Shades of comes Josh Greatness” exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville “This kid tried to steal secbaseball Negro Leagues Ky The display chronicles the ond and he got thrown out "I V‘ that existed for 40 years in the early part of the 20th century The Josh looks at the kid and says Louisville museum was the first to get the traveling exhibit launched ' ’Hey what’s the idea?’ The by foe Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Mo kid says ’Josh I wanted to get into scoring position’ Josh and said ’We’re going to see O'Neil said the exhibit prosays ’Son I'm in scoring that he makes it 'M vides a vital record to an position' when I get up to the plate’” Robinson is shown walking important piece of America's — - m— — The works are being disj shadof out a dugout from ' — in Pee Wee the into ows in “This Reese is' a played sunlight history people Exhibit Theater at the muse- should know” he said “But painting by Norm Bannister uni ' the other thing I like about Satchel Paige a Negro ' this is there are only a few of ' Reese played for the Brook- - Leagues star and pitching legus left who can tell this story is the end lyn Dodgers and became subject of the exhibit’s largest work for his efforts to ease They (the artists) did a beautiful job telling it” Robinson’s transition from the The After the show leaves ' Negro Leagues to the majors portrait by Steve Musgrave in 'July it goes to Louisville has a wood frame engraved O'Neil recalled meeting the Indianapolis: colorful- names Paige Reese and Brooklyn teammate with AP Photo Eddie Stanky at Ebbets Field Other tentative stops are gave his favorite pitches: p San Aii installation of chairs by New jersey artist Courtney Walls called 1110 Same Game”' “Midnight is Creeper” Diego and the baseball “I say 'Hey fellas Jackie symbolically “Little Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in with baseball one Blooper’' in standard chair the double a other black the make "Shades and it7”0’Neil paintedwhite interprets gonna ' v NY of Greatness exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum Tommy” among others recalled “They looked at me FOrmer baseball star Willie FOster stands under a clear blue sky in a sleek black suit wide-brimm- ed all-whi- te red-bri- ck ' ' - 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HAVE CLEAR ORDERS: PUTSEEMINRlY THE MANUSCRIPT CONTAINS UTTLEOF VALUE MEANWHILE HORRlPUS ' CONTINUES HIS : PREDATORY RAIDS--AND ' THEY REVEAL THE- - PERVERSE PRLUANCE of his tactics: -- HE SWOOPS DOWN ON A ' DEFENSELESS1 VILLAGE SHIPS OF THE KING'S FLEET WILL GIVE FUKSUtT ' f ' : - anger deaf closed-captionin- g Among the shows cut off from government funds: MTV’s “Cribs” Disney Channel’s “Lizzie ' McGuire” reruns of “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie” and Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle” Butalong with CBS Fox also said that it’s picking up the cost to keep its programs captioned and Nick- elodeonjs paying tokeep children’s programs like “Rugrats” and “Fairly : Odd Parents” captioned The federal government has been setting aside money to option pro-gramming since 1959 said Robert Davila a member of the National Council on Disability In 1991 fed- - : eral law required all TV sets larger supervises captioning The depart- than 13 inches sold in the United ment had to decide how to apportion States to have built-i- n decoders to this money mindful of the congres- sional mandate that it go to educa- display captions freeing deaf people from buying their own equipment programming he said By 2006 federal regulations will Many people who use these services want every program captioned cer-require that the vast majority of all programming have captioning with tainly the most popular ones Advo- the burden placed on the TV industry cates concede that many of the to pay for it Davila said programs cut off by the Education Until then there are gaps in what’s Department action like cartoons or being captioned The federal govern- - ball games aren’t really tneatinnal Besides the deaf captions are also inept distributes about $12 millions used by people who are learning to year in grants for captioning and video description services said speak English and oil televisions in Louis Danielson head of the federal 'noisy places like health clubs said ' the National Council on Disability program that tion-orient- ed - special-educatio- n |