This small Nebraska town hosted Negro League clubs and possibly an official Major League Baseball game
The Kansas City Royals’ 7-3 victory over Detroit in June 2019 before a sellout crowd of 25,454 at Omaha’s TD Ameritrade Park carried a level of distinction: It was the first Major League Baseball game played in Nebraska. Major League Baseball said so, as did national and local media outlets.
And it was. Until it wasn’t.
Some 71 years earlier, excited fans similarly packed the rodeo grounds in Oxford, Nebraska, to watch a Negro League game pitting the Kansas City Monarchs against the Memphis Red Sox.
