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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").
Team left following the 2014 season for the Indoor Football League. Jacksonville Sharks: 2010: 2016: Left the AFL for the new National Arena League. Kansas City Command: 2006: 2012: Kansas City Brigade 2006–2008 Inactive for the 2010 season Las Vegas Outlaws: 2015: 2015 Los Angeles Avengers: 2000: 2008: Los Angeles Cobras: 1988: 1988 Los ...
Grain Valley left the conference at the end of the 2017-18 school year and joined the Suburban Kansas City Conference. Warrensburg replaced Grain Valley. Center and Clinton were added beginning in the 2020-21 school year. Excelsior Springs departed after the 2021-22 school year and followed Grain Valley to the Suburban Conference.
Truman Sports Complex. Coordinates: 39°03′00″N 94°28′56″W. Truman Sports Complex is in Kansas City, Missouri, pictured before expansive renovations in the late 2000s, with Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman Stadium. The Truman Sports Complex is a sports and entertainment facility in Kansas City, Missouri. It hosts two major league sports ...
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]
Children's Mercy Park[note 1] is a soccer-specific stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, and is the team home for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer (MLS). The stadium is located near Kansas Speedway, on the far west side of Wyandotte County, Kansas. It opened during the 2011 MLS season on June 9, 2011, with a match against ...
Sporting Kansas City began play in 1996 as a charter team in the league, then named Kansas City Wiz. The team was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1995. Since moving across the state line, they have been the only major professional sports league franchise to play their home games in Kansas. Starting in 1997, the franchise was named Kansas City Wizards.
Franchises award member clubs the exclusive right to hold professional football games between league members within a 75-mile radius of their city as well as the exclusive rights to market games in their area. [1] There are currently 32 clubs in the league, and new members can only be approved with the support of 3/4s of current members. [2]