{"id":495,"date":"2019-10-26T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2019-10-26T17:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T22:28:30","slug":"attention-sports-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Attention Sports Editors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row collapse\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-7 columns bottom-2p\">\n<h1 class=\"top-1\/2m\">Attention Sports Editors!<\/h1>\n<p class=\"top-2m\">Come celebrate with us as the Women\u2019s Basketball Association and players are inducted into The Black Archives of Mid-America, where you will find numerous articles about historic women athletes who significantly contributed to Basket Ball history, the women who laid the foundation for women in sports today.  The history begins here in Kansas City, Missouri, the home of the WBA.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for players from your area that participated in the WBA league.  These are the cities that once hosted a team:<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"medium-4 columns\">\n<ul class=\"no-bullet\">\n<li>*Kansas City, Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City, Kansas<\/li>\n<li>Cedar Rapids, Iowa<\/li>\n<li>Beatrice, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>*Omaha, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>*Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"medium-4 columns end\">\n<ul class=\"no-bullet\">\n<li>*St. Louis, Missouri<\/li>\n<li>*Louisville, Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Gary, Indiana<\/li>\n<li>*Memphis, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>*Chicago, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>*Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><small>*Cities that had  teams in the final playoff season of 1995<\/small><\/p>\n<p>We are asking for your support in helping us find the players in your area.  Please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:lightningnedmitchell@yahoo.com\">lightningnedmitchell@yahoo.com<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:info@wbathevision.com\">info@wbathevision.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a documentary film THE VISION that will be showing at this event on February 22, 2020 at 2:00 pm at The Black Archives of Mid-America at 1722 E 17th Terrace,  Kansas City, MO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bottom-2m\">For  additional information  you may contact Dr. Carma at 816-221-1600 at The Black Archives of Mid-America. Come and celebrate with us as the Women\u2019s Basketball Association and its players take another step forward in taking their place in history.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"radius button\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/237521394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 columns bottom-2p\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo bottom-2m\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/VISION\/wp-content\/uploads\/GO-SIGN-3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo bottom-2m\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/VISION\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACK-HISTORY-3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo bottom-2m\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/VISION\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACK-HISTORY-1-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-4 columns text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-4 columns text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-4 columns text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Sports Editors! Come celebrate with us as the Women\u2019s Basketball Association and players are inducted into The Black Archives &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"small radius button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=495\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}