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Private sector economic advisor. Author of the newly released book “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”. https://t.co/vhcQrJq9n3. #avgeek

Aug 11, 2021, 7 tweets

Inside the American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

Monument to jazz musician Charlie Parker, a native of Kansas City, outside the American Jazz Museum.

Inside the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, next door to the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, telling the story of Black baseball stars in a segregated America.

African-American baseball legend Satchel Paige, who after a long and wildly successful career in the segregated Negro Leagues, finally joined Jackie Robinson in the Major Leagues.

Seated upon the baseball equivalent of the Iron Throne, in Kansas City.

Just a short hop down the street, we grabbed dinner at Arthur Bryant's BBQ (Kansas City, Missouri).

All jacked up on Mountain Dew and Burnt Ends at Arthur Bryant's BBQ, Kansas City, Missouri.

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