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Paul Pepper: John C. Kelly, Committee for the Negro Leagues Baseball Initiative

Baseball's Negro League is turning 101 in 2021, and The State Historical Society of Missouri is celebrating this now-century(+ 1)-old institution with an online event featuring Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Unfamiliar with the history of the Negro League? Today's guest, JOHN C. KELLY, gives us a nice overview. September 8, 2021

Travis McMillen is the senior media producer at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. For KBIA, Travis oversees production of Views of the News and The Daily Blend with AC.
Paul Pepper was a fixture on the mid-Missouri airwaves from 1969 until his retirement in 2023. He started hosting Radio Friends with Paul Pepper for KBIA-FM in 2009 after a remarkable 40-year on-air career at KOMU-TV.