Orioles' Cedric Mullins on visit to the Negro Leagues Museum

KANSAS CITY - Founded in 1990, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is based here. The non-profit organization is dedicated to preserving the rich history of African-American baseball.

Over the years, the Orioles have toured the museum a few times, and several players took another tour today. Among them was center fielder Cedric Mullins.

"It was awesome," said Mullins. "Growing up, I got a lot of tidbits on Negro Leagues history. But today, to get the full script basically of how everything unfolded, it was awesome."

Mullins said he enjoyed the entire tour, but a few things stood out to him.

"Just definitely looking at the statues of the all the greats back then taking the field and being able to learn the history of each, one at a time, it was almost overwhelming," he said.

Mullins said he has taken time to learn about the Negro Leagues before, but his education on that topic got a real boost today.

"It definitely did," Mullins said. "I knew some of the history of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, and those are some of the guys that were brought to my attention pretty early. To be able to learn about such a wide span of players that came up during that time was pretty fun."

As for tonight's game, Mullins is back in the starting lineup, batting leadoff in center field. He has not started in three of the last four games, in part due to a sore hip. But he's back in there tonight and ready to go, he said.

"Feeling good. Been with the trainers and we've had some intense treatment going on and I feel really good," he said.

Mullins is batting .305/.379/.492 with five doubles, two homers and five RBIs in 17 games.

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