A benefit for Kansas City's baseball history . . . Really just posting this because I like the graphics . . .
WHO: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
WHAT: Heart of America Hot Dog Festival: A Celebration of Baseball and the Hot Dog
WHEN: Noon to 9 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 17
WHERE: NLBM (1616 E. 18th Street)
WHY: A benefit for the NLBM
CURRENT SPONSORS: Farmland, Hy-Vee, Pepsi, Heinz, NTDF, City of KCMO, Sprint, 610 Sports, Carter Broadcast Group
OVERVIEW: What’s more synonymous with baseball than the All-American hot dog? And, while its origins are debatable and oftentimes humorous, it’s no laughing matter when it comes to baseball fans love of the hotdog. Whether it’s grilled, boiled, steamed, fried or roasted...the hotdog is still the “top dog” of all ballpark foods.
WIENERS TAKE ALL: To celebrate the historical connection between our national pastime and the hot dog, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) will host the inaugural “Heart of America Hot Dog Festival” from noon to 9 p.m., on Saturday, August 17, 2013. The event will feature legendary dogs from ballparks around the country along with other food items from the hotdog family: brats and sausages. In addition, the traditional ballpark snack items: peanuts, popcorn, cotton candy and ice cream stations will be part of the festival that will be held on Buck O’Neil Way (behind the NLBM).
FAMILY FUN: The “Heart of America Hot Dog Festival” is being developed as a family fun event that will include music, live entertainment, mascots, games, autograph sessions, trivia and more. Festival goers will also have access and encouraged to tour the NLBM.
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Cute, but I could have done without the distressed effect - especially on Dogman. That was pretty hip about 6 years ago but something of a design faux pas now.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the event itself looks great and the NLBM is an important part of KC to support.
And while you are eating that dog some POS is over cleaning your car out that is if they don't steal the whole thing and then if you are lucky you make it back to your car alive to go back to your safe neighborhood in the golden ghetto where a few hours later you have the shits from eating a nasty ass who knows what hot dog prepared by who knows who that was just a hour earlier was scratching their ass on a street corner asking for money. Sure go on down to he hood.
ReplyDelete6:50, maybe everyone's goal isn't the sacred "hip."
ReplyDeleteIf ever there was a place that deserved to be wienered this is it.
ReplyDeleteOur NLBM is looked upon so unfavorably that a man in Texas with a sizable Negro Leagues collection is working on building a museum in Georgia (maybe Atlanta?), so the memorabilia will be properly curated and displayed in a well-run museum.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to take a lot more than a hot dog event to fix KC's museum. No one respects it.
2:32 that's bullshit. Buck ONeill told me it was world class.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as that paranormal ghost buster show from A&E comes to town we will find out just what ol' Buck did or didn't say.
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