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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 387
109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 109-228
NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM
APRIL 3, 2006.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. DOMENICI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. Con. Res. 60]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 60) to designate the
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as
America's National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and an amendment to the preamble and recommends that the reso-
lution, as amended, do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
On page 2, in the first whereas clause, strike 1988, as and in-
sert 1988 as.
On page 3, strike lines 9 and 10 insert the following:
(2) supports the efforts of the Negro Leagues Base-
ball Museum to recognize and preserve the.
PURPOSE OF THE MEASURE
The purpose of S. Con. Res. 60 is to designate the Negro Leagues
Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as America's National
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
During the first half of the 20th century, racism and segregation
laws barred African-Americans from playing baseball on major
league teams. Black baseball players formed their own teams, and
in 1920, eight of those teams formed the first Negro baseball
league. Over 70 teams existed at one time or another between 1920
and 1955. Until the 1940s, the teams thrived.
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