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Kansas City Municipal Stadium was an American baseball and football stadium in the central United States, located in Kansas City, Missouri. It was located at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and E. 22nd Street. Municipal Stadium hosted both the minor-league Kansas City Blues of the American Association and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro ...
The first game in Kansas City's Major League history was played at home at Municipal Stadium on Tuesday, April 12, 1955, before 32,147 fans. [4] Facing the Detroit Tigers, the Athletics broke a 2–2 deadlock in the sixth inning with a three-run rally keyed by pinch hitter Don Bollweg's two-run single, and went on to win, 6–2.
After Johnson got permission from the American League to move the A's to Kansas City, he sold Blues Stadium to the city, which renamed it Kansas City Municipal Stadium and leased it back to Johnson. The lease gave Johnson a three-year escape clause if the team failed to draw one million or more customers per season. The subsequent lease signed ...
Municipal Stadium 18,354 Recap: 9 November 7 New York Jets L 10–13 4–4–1 Municipal Stadium 25,523 Recap: 10 November 14 San Diego Chargers: W 31–7 5–4–1 Municipal Stadium 21,968 Recap: 11 November 21 at Boston Patriots T 10–10 5–4–2 Fenway Park: 13,056 Recap: 12 November 28 Houston Oilers W 52–21 6–4–2 Municipal Stadium ...
The 1958 Kansas City Athletics season was the team's fourth in Kansas City and the 58th in the American League. The season involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 73 wins and 81 losses, 19 games behind the World Champion New York Yankees .
Kauffman Stadium. 42,633 (ALCS Game 2, October 9, 1980, vs. New York Yankees) [2][3] Kauffman Stadium (/ ˈkɔːfmən /), often called " The K ", is a baseball stadium located in Kansas City, Missouri. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball 's Kansas City Royals. It is next door to Arrowhead Stadium, home of National Football League ...
1924. 1942. The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball 's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. Wilkinson was the first white owner at the time of the establishment of the team. [1]
Children's Mercy Park[ note 1 ] is a soccer-specific stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, and is the team home for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer (MLS). The stadium is located near Kansas Speedway, on the far west side of Wyandotte County, Kansas. It opened during the 2011 MLS season on June 9, 2011, with a match against ...