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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.
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 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.
In the era, Class A was the highest level of minor league baseball. The Kansas City Blues moved from the Western League to become members of the 1902 Class A level American Association. In 1900, the original Kansas City Blues had relocated to become the Washington Senators for the first season of the American League. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Building on his love of baseball, George Jr. purchased the minor league Kansas City Blues in 1917. He bought a plot of land at 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue and built the team a new stadium.
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 ...
The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun as a charter member franchise in the new American League in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 for 13 seasons and then to the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, California, in 1968 for 57 seasons.