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Later that night across the complex at Royals Stadium, the Royals won Game 7 of the 1985 World Series (7:30pm first pitch) against the St. Louis Cardinals. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Kansas City began a project to renovate both Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums in 2007, following the passage of a 3 ⁄ 8 cent sales tax increase in a referendum in 2006.
It would be built around the existing diamond, now called Frank Myers Field. After the stadium's completion the field was dedicated on April 7, 1961, in honor of Frank Myers, K-State's baseball coach who retired the following year. It would be another 24 years until the team could play night games after lights were installed in 1985. [1]
In 1967, voters in Jackson County approved the bonds for the Truman Sports Complex, which replaced the multipurpose Municipal Stadium and featured a football stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs and a baseball stadium for the Kansas City Athletics. The owner of the Athletics, Charles O. Finley, had just signed a new lease to remain in Kansas City ...
Tarik Skubal allowed three hits over five innings for his 17th win and the streaking Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Wednesday night to move within a half game of a playoff spot ...
In 1930, the Monarchs became the first professional baseball team to use a portable lighting system which was transported from game to game in trucks to play games at night, five years before any Major League Baseball team did. [2] The Monarchs won ten league championships before integration, and triumphed in the first Negro World Series in 1924.
On November 1, 1980, Kansas defeated Kansas State 20–18 in Manhattan, Kansas to take a 9–3 lead in the first dozen years the Governor's Cup was awarded. However, it was later determined that Kerwin Bell, a running back for Kansas in that game, was a partial qualifier despite his high school transcripts indicating otherwise and he was ruled ...
Kansas' governor signed legislation Friday enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Royals away from neighboring Missouri by helping the ...
A sellout crowd watched in person in rural northeastern Iowa, and nearly 6 million viewers tuned in that night to make it the most watched regular-season baseball game in the previous 16 years at ...