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When the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, Kansas City was left without professional baseball for the first and only time since 1883.
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.
MLB complied during the 1967 winter meetings, awarding one of four expansion teams to Kansas City to start play in 1971.
harmaceutical executive Ewing Kauffman won the bidding for the new Kansas City team, which he named the Royals after the American Royal Livestock Show held in Kansas City every year since 1899.
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Royals Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Publish Date: January 3, 2009
After the Royals lost all three games left-hander John Bale started last April and he had an unsightly 7.63 ERA in that month, the Royals did not start another southpaw the rest of the season.
Bale re-signed with the Royals but will be in the bullpen in 2009 after finishing strong last year—he allowed no runs and only four hits in 11 1/3 innings in 10 September relief appearances, and the Royals went 8-2 in those games.
The Royals, however, would prefer to mix one left-hander into the rot …
Former Dodgers pitcher Willhite dies (AP)
Publish Date: December 20, 2008
Nick Willhite, a hard-throwing left-hander for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 67. Willhite, who grew up in Denver and starred in baseball and football at South High, died Sunday at the home of his son Monty in Alpine, Utah, the son said Friday. Jon Nicholas Willhite pitched for the Dodgers from 1963-66, and was a member of their World Series… …
Bale agrees to $1.2M, 1-year deal with Royals (AP)
Publish Date: December 17, 2008
Left-hander John Bale and the Kansas City Royals agreed Tuesday to a one-year contract. Bale was 0-3 with a 4.39 ERA in 2008, appearing in just 13 games while struggling with injuries — one self-inflicted. While on the disabled list in May with shoulder tightness, Bale broke his pitching hand by punching a hotel room door while the Royals were in Cleveland. …