Mr. Beat tells the story of an unlikely baseball game between a KKK team and a Negro League team in Wichita, Kansas, on June 21st, 1925.

Produced by Matt Beat. All images and video by Matt Beat, used under fair use guidelines, or found in the public domain. Music by @badsnacks and @incompetech_kmac.

Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y...

Sources/further reading and looking:
https://web.archive.org/web/201812170...
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/art...
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...
https://sabr.org/journal/article/beat...
https://web.archive.org/web/201902050...
http://www.wichitaphotos.org/searchre...
https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/...

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