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The following is a detailed history of the Kansas City Royals, a Major League Baseball team that began play in 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri. The team is currently in the American League Central Division. The franchise has won two wild card berths, seven division titles, four league championships, and two World Series titles.
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.
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 Kansas City Royals baseball team is currently owned by an ownership group led by John Sherman. The franchise was first established by Ewing Kauffman in 1967. Owners
When John Schuerholz was a 28-year-old administrative assistant with the still-hatching Kansas City Royals in 1968, his nimble range of duties included walking back and forth in the franchise’s ...
Both the Royals and the Chiefs once played in a facility near downtown. KCQ digs into the history.