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Buddy Blattner (1969–1975); Denny Matthews (1969–1976, 1983–1987); Steve Shannon (1977–1979); Al Wisk (1980–1982); Denny Trease (1980–1992); Fred White ...
Matthews also called baseball events for the national CBS Radio network in the 1980s. In 1999, the Royals fired White and replaced him with the younger Ryan Lefebvre. [2] Despite a tremendous age difference, Matthews and Lefebvre integrated their styles well and their dry wit and rapport became popular with Royals fans.
The Royals Sports Television Network (RSTN) was a regional sports network serving the Kansas City area, Kansas, western Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Iowa owned by the Kansas City Royals. The network began operations before the 2003 Major League Baseball season in response to Fox Sports Midwest 's decision to reduce the number of Royals ...
King, who died on October 18, 2005, was the lead radio voice of the Athletics for 25 years, from 1981 through 2005, the longest tenure for an A's announcer since the team's games were first broadcast in 1938 (they were the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1954, and the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1967, before owner Charles O. Finley ...
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 Royals were shut down 2-1 by the visiting San Francisco Giants on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium. Right-handed starting pitcher Mason Black, who came in with an 0-4 record and ERA over 7.00 ...
The name "Royals" pays homage to the American Royal, a livestock show, horse show, rodeo, and championship barbecue competition held annually in Kansas City since 1899, [7] [8] as well as the identical names of two former Negro league baseball teams that played in the first half of the 20th century (one was a semi-pro team based in Kansas City ...
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