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The Kansas City Blues were a minor league baseball team located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. The team was one of the eight founding members of the American Association. [1] The Blues did not field particularly competitive teams until 1918, when they won the AA pennant. The team won again in 1923, and again in 1929.
The Kansas City Blues was the primary moniker of the minor league baseball teams based in Kansas City, Missouri between 1885 and 1901. The Kansas City minor league teams played as members of the Class A level Western League in 1885, 1887, 1892, and from 1894 to 1899, and the Western Association in 1888, 1890, 1891, and 1893.
The Kansas City Blues moved to Washington D.C. to play as the Senators. Another major league competitor was the Federal League (FL) (1914–1915). However, none of its teams joined either the NL or AL after it disbanded.
This timeline shows the history of major league franchises (including non-defunct franchises) before 1900. Multiple bars for a city indicates that the city hosted multiple major league franchises at the same time; for example, Philadelphia at times hosted two or three franchises concurrently.
Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
Kansas City Blues (1885–1901), an early minor-league baseball team; Kansas City Blues (American Association), a 1902–54 minor-league baseball team; Kansas City Blues (NFL), a Kansas City-based NFL team in 1924; Kansas City Blues (AFL), a 1934 American Football League team; Kansas City Blues (rugby union), a Rugby Super League team founded ...
Madison in 1915, owner of the Kansas City, Missouri baseball club of the Federal League, the Kansas City Packers. The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs , known simply as the Federal League , was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league ", in competition ...
The following year, they were promoted together to the American Association's Kansas City Blues. With Priddy, Rizzuto, and Vince DiMaggio, the 1939 Blues went 107–47 and have been ranked as the 12th best minor league team of all-time. [2] Rizzuto and the 19-year-old Priddy were two of the league's best players in 1939.