This book is the story of baseball pioneer J.L. Wilkinson
(1878-1964) and the team he founded and owned, the famed Kansas
City Monarchs. A white man, Wilkinson earned respect throughout the
world of African American baseball by treating his players with
fairness and respect. Wilkinson began his baseball career in Iowa
as a player and later organizer of a traveling women's team in 1908
and the groundbreaking multi-racial All-Nations club in 1912. When
he founded the Monarchs in 1920, Wilkinson was the only white owner
of a Negro National League (NNL) team. Wilkinson led the Monarchs
to great success, winning two Negro Leagues World Series
championships and numerous pennants in the NNL and then the Negro
American League. During the Great Depression Wilkinson developed an
ingenious portable lighting system for night games that is credited
with saving black baseball. He resurrected the career of legendary
pitcher Satchel Paige in 1938. In 1945 Wilkinson signed a rookie
named Jackie Robinson to the Monarchs and played a key role in the
integration of major league baseball. J.L. Wilkinson was
posthumously inducted in to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in
2006, joining fourteen Monarchs players in the Hall.
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