Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Municipal Stadium hosted both the minor-league Kansas City Blues of the American Association and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1955. The stadium was almost completely rebuilt prior to the 1955 baseball season when the Kansas City Athletics moved to Kansas City from Philadelphia.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Baseball portal; Biography portal; Missouri portal; Players for the Kansas City Blues (American Association) minor league baseball team, who played in the Western Association, Western League and American Association from 1890 to 1954.
Both the Royals and the Chiefs once played in a facility near downtown. KCQ digs into the history.