Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They have had the honor of being one of the major five teams in the Central Division of the American League.

A City without Baseball team
Kansas City did not have a professional baseball team, after the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season. This happened for the first time in 1883, after a furious Senator Stuart Symington threatened to introduce legislation to remove baseball's antitrust exemption. This exemption stood till the time Kansas City was granted a team in the next round of expansion.

During the 1967 winter meetings, MLB met the terms by awarding one of four expansion teams to Kansas City to start playing in 1971. Ewing Kauffman won the bidding for the new Kansas City team. The team was named the "Royals" after the American Royal Livestock Show held in Kansas City. However, Symington pressured MLB to allow the new teams to start playing baseball in 1969.

Early Successes
The Royals returned to the World Series in 1987. However, the season did not prove very good for the Royals. They won 83 out of 162 games. The season ended with Royals coming just two games behind the eventual World Champion Minnesota Twins in the Western Division. In 1987, the team released the long appointed star Hal McRae. The new manager was hired whose name was John Wathan during the midseason. Ever since McRae left, Royals never became a successful team. McRae was known for his exceptional competitive spirit.

The Royals saw young stars in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some of the eminent names among these stars included Bo Jackson, Tom Gordon, and Kevin Seitzer. In the year 1989, the Royals won 92 games and maintained the third-best record in baseball. However, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs. The arrival of Brett however helped Royals to gain success. He was the first player to have won battling titles in three different decades. The Royals won the game fourteen times till the season ended unexpectedly due to player's strike under the manager Hal McRae, center-fielder Brian McRae, and Cy Young winner David Cone.

Prior to the 2006 season, General Manager Allard Baird signed several veteran players. He secured starting pitchers Mark Redman, Joe Mays and Scott Elarton. Although the new players seemed promising but they could not bring many additional wins. The Royals struggled through another 100-loss season in 2006. Inn major league history, they became just the eleventh team to lose 100 games in three straight seasons.

Kansas City enters the 2007 season looking to rebound from four out of five seasons ending with 100 losses. Fans are expecting the arrival of top prospect Alex Gordon during the 2007 season.

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