In Kansas City, barbecue is a religion.
Meat is blessed with juicy spices and baptized in smoke.
Both arts use hard woods, hickory for cooking, and ash for hitting. Let's not forget Jazz or Blues, with its own KC style and uniqueness. Similar to a Charlie Parker or Lester Young saxophone solo, black baseball was pulsative, syncopative, creative, and tons of fun to watch. Later, around 1897, came the Wall's Laundry Grays, who were sponsored by Chinese laundryman Quong Fond. That same year, J.W. Jenkins of Jenkins Music Company also organized a black team.