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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.
The 1970 Kansas City Royals season was their second in Major League Baseball. The Royals finished tied for fourth place with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League West with a record of 65–97, 33 games behind the division champion Minnesota Twins .
Kirby Puckett and Rickey Henderson signed the first contracts which paid an average of $3 million a year in November 1989. In 1990, Jose Canseco signed for 5 years and $23.5 million, making him the first player to earn an average of $4 million a year. It wasn't until 2010 when the MLB average salary rose above that same mark. [7] [8]
This decision, upheld in federal court, was a key factor in the establishment of free agency for MLB players. [1] At the time of the decision, the average MLB salary was a little under $45,000. It rose to $76,000 by 1977 and the average MLB salary was $4.5 million by 2023, a 100-fold increase.
An enraged Senator Stuart Symington threatened to introduce legislation removing baseball's antitrust exemption unless Kansas City was granted a team in the next round of expansion. [2] Major League Baseball complied with a hasty round of expansion at the 1967 winter meetings. Kansas City was awarded one of four teams to begin play in 1971.
While Bonilla’s $6.1 million salary in 1992 was the largest in history, Soto will earn that much by mid-April. But while the money will set up generations of wealth for Soto’s family, along ...
May 3 – Cal Drummond, 52, American League umpire who worked in 1,369 league games from 1960 to 1969, the first of 1961's two MLB All-Star games, and the 1966 World Series; struck in the head by a foul ball on June 10, 1969, resulting in a blood clot to the brain, and died while attempting a 1970 comeback in the Triple-A American Association.
Rocky Colavito 1964 Kansas City Athletics Spring Training. The 1964 season would see the Athletics have their worst season in Kansas City since 1956. The team didn't spend a single day with a positive record and were consistently towards the bottom of the standings. From May 17 on, the teams spent the rest of the season in ninth or last place.