As the home to major companies such as Garmin, Sprint, H&R Block and Russell Stover Chocolates, plenty of business travelers find themselves in Kansas City for work. Here's how to make the most of those off-duty hours.
Thehas listening stations and displays memorabilia and personal items that tell the stories of jazz legends. Don't miss a rare treasure: Charlie Parker's Grafton saxophone.
The museum's Blue Room Jazz Club hosts live music four times a week, with several early shows that shouldn't interfere with those morning meetings.features photographs, historical artifacts and interactive computer stations that document the story of the players and the teams from after the Civil War through to the 1960s. A mock baseball diamond with 10 life-size sculptures of the league's greats is a popular centerpiece exhibit.
Two blocks away is the Paseo YMCA, the founding site of the Negro Baseball Leagues in 1920. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and outside there's now a small baseball diamond where you can run the bases and take a photo in front of a large mural portraying Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Buck O'Neil and other Negro Leagues players who also played in the major leagues.
The fully loaded Steamboat Arabia sank on the Missouri River in September 1856. The steamer lay beneath the water for decades. But with erosion, the river chaged course and a century later, the Arabia and its 60 tons of still-intact cargo was dug up from beneath a Kansas cornfield in 1988. The recovered treasure is on display. It includes everything from dishware and fine jewelry to guns, toys and still edible food.For history with a twist, Uber over to the J. Rieger & Co.
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