Negro Baseball Museum Finds Major Artifact
The^Negro Leagues Baseball
Museum has discovered the exis
tence of the original Articles of
Incorporation of the Negro National
League of Professional Baseball
Clubs, a document previously
believed lost
The document was located
recently by Larry Lester, director of
research for the museum, who
found it in the Illinois State
Archives. Announcement of the
find was made as the museum
moved into a new storefront loca
tion in the historic 18th & Vine Dis-^
tnct on aiTinterim basis until com
pletion of a permanent facility.
"Although it has been known
that the NNL was organized at a
meeting in Kansas City on February
13, 1920, no actual evidence of its
incorporation had ever been found,"
said Lester. "The key to its discov
ery was checking file systems for
all variations of the official corpo
rate name, which was thought to
have been the National Association
,?f Colored Professional Baseball
Clubs and the Negro National
League.
"The Articles of Incorporation
provided new insights into the his
tory of the^JNL," said Lester.
"For example, the league was
not incorporated until November
18, 1924, and it was in Chicago, 111.,
the hometown of league founder
Andrew MRube" Foster.
The league's original incorpora
tors were Foster, Willie Foster, J. L.
Wilkinson, Russell Thompson and
Walter Farmer. Willie Foster was
Rube Foster's 20-year-old brother
and originally held a 40 percent
majority of the stock. Rube Foster
and Wilkinson, owner of the Kansas
City Monarchs, each held 20 per
cent Businessmen Thompson and
Farmer held 15 percent and 5 per
cent, respectively.
It wos not until Sept. 21, 1925,
when the league was reorganized,
that the well known Negro Leagues
club owners came on board as
stockholders," said Lester.
Major League Baseball's
Records Committee currently rec
ognizes only six leagues as orga
nized institutions in baseball, he
noted. They are today's American
and National Leagues; the Ameri
can Association, which spanned 10
years; and the Union Association,
the Player's League, and the Federal
League, each of which lasted less
than three years,, Lester noted.
Though not officially recognized by
Major League Baseball, the Negro
National League lasted 12 years,
disbanding in. 1932. The league was
reorganized in 1937 under the name
Negro American League, which dis
banded in 1960.
Kennedy
Graduates
from Military
Academy
Christopher Shay Kennedy,
son of Frederick James and Nancy
Shay Kennedy of Kernersville,
graduated from Oak Ridge Mili-.
lary Academy on May 29.
Kennedy has been accepted
to the United States Military
Academy at West Point - the
Citadel and plans for a career as a
Christopher Shay Kennedy
Brown Holds
Track Record
By DEBY JO FERGUSON .
Ckrorni els Sporn Writer
James A. Brown III is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. JamesA.Brown
II and the grandson of Rosa L.
Holloman of Winston-Salem.
He is a senior at Johnson C.
Smith University in Charlotte but
has left Winston-Salem and Mt.
Tabor High School with a record
manystriveto exceed. ?
According to Ml Tabor track
coach Mike Esposito, "Brown was
always a very good kid and has
done very well for himself."
Brown, and three other team
mates have held the state record
since 1989 in the 3, 200-meter
relay with a time of 7:5 1.40.
Brown also holds his high
school record in the 800-meter run
at 1:55.41 and was in the top five
on the state champion cross coun
try team.
Brown is now majoring in
communications at Johnson C.
Smith University.
James A. Brown III is described as a student who has done very well.
Magic Denies Sexual Allegations in Book
NEW YORK (AP) ? Magic
Johnson defended himself against
posthumous criticism of his sexual
exploits from Arthur Ashe.
In a book completed just before
his death from AIDS, Ashe charged
that the exploits of Johnson and fel
low basketball star Wilt Chamber
lain reinforced racist stereotypes of
the black man as a slave to his sex
drive.
"I have always taken full
responsibility for my actions and
risked public alienation bydOming
forward with my story," Johnson,
who is infected with the AIDS
virus, said in a statement last
Wednesday. "It is my hope that by
taking the straightforward
approach, I have begun and will
continue to educate and bring
awareness to the prevention and
spread of this disease."
Johnson also called the tennis
star "'a role model for all."
Chamberlain's whereabouts
couldn't immediately be deter
mined.
Johnson has been open aboui
his promiscuity, and. Chamberlain
lias claimed 20,000 "conquests. ' '
"African Americans have spent
decades denying that we are sexual
primitives by nature, as racists have
argued since the days of slavery,"
wrote Ashe, who died Feb: 6 at age
49. "These two college-trained
black men of international fame and
immense personal wealth do their
best to reinforce the stereotype."
MEAC Offers Officiating School Sessions
For the fourth time in the 10
year history of the Mid-Eastern Ath
letic Conference (MEAC) Basket
ball Officiating School, two ses
sions will be conducted. The first
? 1993 session was set June 13-17 in
Orangeburg, S.C. at MEAC member
South Carolina State University dur
ing its Team Basketball Camp. The
second session is scheduled for June
17-20 in Blacksburg, Va. in con
junction with the "Hokies Basket
ball Camp" at Virginia Technical
University. The purpose of the
school is to provide an opportuhity
for aspiring officials who want to
become better on the college level
and those who want to improve their
skills on any level. The program
places emphasis on individualized
instruction, team officiating, the
philosophy of officiation, interpreta
tion and application of rules, tech
nique, and game mechanics. John
Russell, MEAC supervisor of bas
ketball officials and internationally
known clinician, is the school direc
tor. Free, along with MEAC super
visor of officials, Paul Glenn, will
assist. Other staff members are
MEAC game officials Bob Barnett,
Joe Mitchell, William Whites, A1
Battista, James Howell, and Donnee
Gray. All have NCAA regionals
officiating experience except Bat
tista, who is a respected clinician.
Counselors include: Jimmy
Askew, Tony Greene, Eddie Laws,
Terry Moore, and Robert Pugh; also
members of the MEAC officiating
roster. Askew, Laws and Pugh have
also officiated games in the NCAA
regionals. Consultants are legendary
coach John McLendon, Tim Autry,
Danny Doss, Leon Myers, and
Barnes T. Burch. frfcLendon, who
studied under the father of basket
ball, James Naismith, has been
inducted into the National Sports
Hall Of Fame, the NAIA Hall and
the ME AC Hall. Autry, Commis
sioner of the Eastern Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference, is a former
coach in the MEAC. Doss, a noted
clinician, is a former C1AA supervi
sor of officials and pastpresfdent of
the IAABO. Myers is the EIAC
supervisor of officials, and Burch is
the Southern Conference supervisor
of officials.
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