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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.
Subsequently, Kansas City was awarded an American League expansion team for 1969, and the new Kansas City Royals used the stadium as a temporary home from 1969 to 1972. [16] Kansas City welcomed the new Royals, who were led by 1969 American League Rookie of the Year Lou Piniella. The expansion team drew nearly one million fans in their first ...
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 ...
Both the Royals and the Chiefs once played in a facility near downtown. KCQ digs into the history.
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").
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.