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Located in the inner-city neighborhood near 18th and Vine, the stadium first housed the minor-league white Kansas City Blues baseball team and the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs. [1] [2] The first Negro World Series game was held at the stadium in 1924. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, founded in 1990, is a few blocks from the site. [3]
The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. Wilkinson was the first white owner at the time of the establishment of the team. [1]
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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").
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 History of Kansas City: Together with a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country with which it is Surrounded (Birdsall & Miller, 1881) online. Whitney, Carrie Westlake. Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People 1808-1908. Vol. 3 (SJ Clarke publishing Company, 1908) biographies of prominent figures. online. Shirley ...
Kansas City was awarded an American League expansion team, the Kansas City Royals. They were initially slated to begin play in 1971 , but Symington was not willing to have Kansas City wait three years for another team, and renewed his threat to have baseball's antitrust exemption revoked unless the Royals began play in 1969 , two years earlier ...
The following is a detailed history of the Kansas City Royals, a Major League Baseball team that began play in 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri. The team is currently in the American League Central Division. The franchise has won two wild card berths, seven division titles, four league championships, and two World Series titles.