Orioles center fielder Adam Jones has always appreciated the history of baseball, and now he’s putting substantial money to show that.
May 13, Jones will make a $20,000 contribution to the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City, and he’ll also fund a program to provide free admission for children from the area who are part of Operation Breakthrough.
Jones says he’s been to the Museum 10 or 15 times in his major league career.
“It’s about the game of baseball, about the Negro Leagues side of it, their point of view," Jones said. "The things that they didn’t have as much as everybody else, the things that they didn’t care about as much as everybody else, just the sheer game of baseball. You walk through those doors, such a love for baseball that it’s contagious."
