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Kansas City, Missouri based Major League Baseball team, the Kansas City Royals, is a member of the Central Division of MLB's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Club has played in Kauffman Stadium. They acquired the name ‘Royals' from the American Royal Livestock Show, held in Kansas City since 1899.

Founded by Ewing Kauffman, the Club soon entered into Major League Baseball as an expansion franchise in 1969. The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, the then-United States Senator from Missouri. Stuart Symington demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics. Kansas City's previous major league team moved to Oakland, California.

Kansas City Royals began play in 1969 and made their debut on April 8, 1969. The Royals won the match, defeating the Minnesota Twins 4-3 in 12 innings. The team was quickly built through a number of trades engineered by its first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, including a trade for Lou Piniella. The Royals also invested in a strong farm system and soon trained such future stars as pitchers Paul Splittorff and Steve Busby, infielders George Brett and Frank White, and outfielder Al Cowens.

In 1971, the team had their first winning season. The manager Bob Lemon led the Royals to a second-place finish. In 1973, the Royals adopted their iconic ‘powder blue' road uniforms and moved from Municipal Stadium to the brand-new Kauffman Stadium. The Royals quickly became the dominant franchise in the American League Western Division. They won three straight division championships from 1976 to 1978. However, they lost to the New York Yankees in three straight American League Championship Series matches.

In 1980, under Frey, the Royals advanced to the ALCS, where they again faced the Yankees and finally vanquished them in a three-game. However, after making a mark in their first World Series, the Royals fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. Under the leadership of manager Dick Howser, they won their fifth division championship in 1984. Bret Saberhagen, Mark Gubicza, Charlie Leibrandt, Bud Black and Danny Jackson turned out to be exceptional in the championship. But in the American League Championship Series, the Royals were swept by the Detroit Tigers.

In the 1985 regular season, the Royals topped the Western Division for the sixth time in ten years. But it fell behind 3-1 in a world series against the cross-state St. Louis Cardinals. The key game in the Royals' return was Game Six. They won 11-0 to clinch the Club's first World Series title.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kansas City Royals developed young stars such as Bo Jackson, Tom Gordon, and Kevin Seitzer, got hold of some successful free-agents, and posted winning records. This era instead centered around the end of Brett's career, such as his third and final batting title in 1990. He was the first player to win batting titles in three different decades.

As part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League in the middle of 1990s.

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