so much so that my dear friend, the late great john buck o'neal who was managing the monarchs at the time would put hampton in a monarch uniform, and he would sit on the bench and serve as an honorary coach there is the beautiful lena horn throwing out the first pitch at an all-star game. the legendary jazz musician cab calloway had his own semi grow perot black baseball team. so did louis armstrong. interestingly enough, all the jazz musicians wanted to be baseball players. all the baseball players wanted to be jazz musicians. so it was only fitting that they would come here to 18th and vine where you had the best of both worlds, jazz and baseball. yeah. and so kansas city in 18th and vine was jumping. a jazz musician could get a gig in kansas city when he couldn't get a gig anywhere else in the world because you had all the nightclubs had music. the clubs galore here at 18th and 12th and vine. so this place was wide open. and baseball and jazz kind of intersected. yeah, that intrinsic mixture of jazz and baseball which radiated from 18th and vine and made it one of the most recogni