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The Royals wore their trademark powder blue road uniforms from 1973 to 1991 and reintroduced it in 2008 as an alternate jersey. [17]When the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, Kansas City was left without major league baseball or, for the first time since 1883, professional baseball at all.
Although Columbia blue is often identified with Pantone 292, the Philolexian Society first used it in the early 19th century, before the standardization of colors. Pantone 290, a slightly lighter shade of blue, has also been specified by some Columbia University offices, and is the current official color listed by the Columbia University visual ...
This era also saw the emergence of powder blue as a primary road color, with teams such as the Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos and Philadelphia Phillies popularizing the look. In the late 1970s, the Pittsburgh Pirates began a trend of multiple combinations of differently colored jerseys and trousers and caps (with the ...
Cosmic Cobalt may be our 2025 Color of the Year, but this rich blue hue has long been a color of significance for royalty and ancient cultures, dating as far back as the 6th and 7th centuries B.C.
Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. walks the red carpet with his fiancee Maggie Black before the 2024 MLB All-Star game at Globe Life Field on July 16, 2024.
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Many fans, including former Royal Greg Pryor, thought that switching leagues was the only way to keep the Royals in Kansas City. [12] On the other hand, there was also a strong sentiment among some fans that Kansas City was, is, and always would be an American League market.
LONDON — The whole world has got the blues right now — and not just turquoise, lapis or cerulean, hues famously noted by Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada.”