This broadside was used to promote a game between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Newark Indians of the Negro American League. The game was played at Dietz Stadium in Kingston, New York on Tuesday, June 16^th, 1959. This game was played in one of the last years of the Negro Leagues.

The Kansas City Monarchs were established in 1920 and had played a major role in Negro League baseball until the league folded in 1963. Ted Rasberry from Grand Rapids, Michigan was the owner of the Monarchs during their final seasons. Some of the players on the 1959 Kansas City Monarchs team were:

Ben Adams	pitcher	Jessie Mitchell	outfield
James Bolden	pitcher	James Sanders	catcher
Henry Brown	pitcher	George Spriggs	outfield
Roger Brown	infield	B.G. Stephens	pitcher
Willard Brown	outfield	Tommy Taylor	pitcher
Nate Dancy	second base	Ozzie Tidmore	second base
Sylvester Donald	infield	Jesse Townsend	pitcher
Paul Gilbert	first base	Willie Washington	third base and Manager
Aubrey Grigsby	pitcher	John Winston	pitcher
Palmer Hubbard	outfield
Irvin Little	pitcher
Frank Marsh	outfield
Ira Mc Knight	catcher

An interesting footnote to the 1959 Kansas City Monarchs team is that it included one player who was at the end of a Hall of Fame career and another young player who was just starting a career that would lead him to the Major Leagues.  Willard “Homerun” Brown who started his Negro League career in 1934 played in the 1959 Monarchs outfield. Willard “Homerun” Brown was inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.  George Spriggs who was barely nineteen years old, would go on to play for five years in the Major Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals.

Very little is known about the Newark Indians. It is very possible that they did not even play a full schedule during the 1959 season.

Ben Adams                                             Jessie Mitchell