I still have a chuck you farley hat in my collection. I went to the last game at municipal stadium, George let us on to the field I scooped up a beer drinking cup full of the pitcher’s mound. George tried to catch me but I made it out the third base exit. I still have the souvenirs.
A great video! I was the second bat boy for the Kansas City Athletics, both 1956-57. Wonderful memories of the Municipal Stadium and of course, the players, both visiting and our home team, the Kansas City A's.
As a young modern day Oakland fan about to loose the team to a horrible owner that just wants Vegas tourism dollars, I feel bad for Kansas City fans from the 60s (my grandparents probably remember the Kansas City A's, they were alive at the time and live in KC, my dad was born a couple years before they moved to Oakland). Kansas City loosing the A's was the baseball equivilant of Quebec City loosing the Nordiques it seems, with the team immediately going on to be a dynasty after leaving. The next time we play the Royals I want fans of both teams united in protesting John Fisher. From this Oakland fan, solidarity to 60s Kansas City fans.
I was nine-years-old when my father took me to my first game ever at Fenway Park. The opponent that day were the Kansas City Athletics. The year was 1965.
I grew up a Chiefs fan and could name every starter and their number in the sixties, even the kickers and specialists. Never missed a game on TV. In the OK Panhandle we would get the AFL telecasts, and I preferred their brand of football to the Cowboys and the NFL.
I remember my uncle taking me to the old Municipal Stadium to see the Royals when they were a new expansion team. One of my favorite baseball stadiums is where the Royals play. I hope their owner does not move them downtown or anywhere else.
I always remember my dad always saying that the A's were nothing more than a Yankees farm club. Of course my dad was an Indians fan so he may have had a bias 😊
This is a great video history of the Kansas City Athletics. Beautiful graphics, beautiful maps, ... and that table!! Thank you, Adam Velasquez. Well done!!!
THE KC A"S ................. LOVED THESE GUYS .................... JERRY LUMPE ................... WAYNE CAUSEY .,............. NORM SIEBERN ..............MANNY JIMINEZ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ED CHARLES.................. MIKE HERSHBERGER ............................... DIEGO SEGUI ................... SOOOO MANY ............... SO COOL ................. THEY STUNK ................ BUT SO WHAT .................. AND ROGER MARIS AND ROCKY COLAVITO ................... LOVED THE UNEEES .......................... THANKS ADAM
My dad's cousin, Ray Herbert, pitched for K.C. in 55, then 58 -61. Thanks for the history lesson. I didn't know anything about the team other than Ray's stats.
I’m from KC so this is interesting to hear about a club wayyyy before my time. My dad is a Chiefs fan and greeted them, along with other fans, at their arrival of the flight back from SB IV with a big “GO CHIEFS” sign and what not. Him being a football fan I never heard about any of this growing up so thanks. Also, if you were going for a Jon Bois/Secret Base feel to your videos, ya nailed it 👌🏻
Good documentary. Very informative. Just a note though.... Roger Maris last name is pronounced with the A sounding like it is in the word as, not Morris.
Was wondering if The Beatles playing Municipal Stadium in Kansas CIty would make it's way onto this documentary. Probably the only highlight for the Kansas CIty A's.
Got to see all these teams from the mid 60s on and we are in the golden age of chiefs football. What a cast the of misfits coaches and quarterbacks In the mid 2000s.
2:27 Take a gander at Charlie Finley in the newspaper photo under the headline "Finley Eyes Move to Oakland" That, folks is what many a 42 year old looked like "back in the day" Good Lord
Those fans in KC had a right to be angry. There was never a chance for their team to improve or compete. Not under Arnold "Yankees Puppet" Johnson or under Finley until he moved them to Oakland; right when the A's had finally assembled some talent and turned things around like the Braves did "suddenly" in 1991. Went from 99 losses to 82 wins and soon their 70's Dynasty.
This is an interesting video. I do have a correction. He said that in the early years, all professional baseball teams were based in the northeast and upper midwest. Not true. St. Louis has constantly had professional baseball since 1875, and the Cardinal's franchise started in 1900. Maybe it depends on how you define "upper midwest". If you live in Alabama or Georgia, you would consider St. Louis to qualify. :)
I recall the A's signing power hitters Rocky Colavito and Jim Gentile to bolster their offense and they did but the team still finished last. Colavito hit 34 homers and Gentile hit 28.
AS A NEWYORK YANKEES FAN I HATED CHARLIE FINELY HE WAS A SCUMBAG TAKING THE A OUT OF KANSAS CITY WAS STUPID YES THEY DID WIN THREE WORLD SERIES IN A ROW REGGIE JACKSON AND CATFISH HUNTER CAME TO THE A S WHEN THEY WAS ON KANSAS CITY IF THEY WOULD HAVE STAY THE ROYALS WOULD HAD NEVER GOTTEN A BASEBALL TEAM KENNETH O
Good video. Hot take: the Kansas City Monarchs shouldn’t have become a minor league team. They should have been considered major league and simply integrated.
I wonder how many white baseball fans went to the Monarchs games. I'll bet there were a few. If you're starving for pro baseball back then, you didn't care about the color of skin, but had to be on the lookout for the KKK for sure!
Great video. Poor Marty. So many wins, but such a poor playoff record. He made me crazy at times. Still bitter over Elvis Grbac over Rich Gannon in 97. I'm glad we are so blessed now.
"He changed the team mascot from an elephant to a mule named Charley O." he did in his mind, but I bought an A's cap w/ an elephant logo in the '80s or '90s I can't say for sure but I think the team still uses the logo, tho' not in any big way that whole bit with the Pennant Porch @11:30, & especially that weird touch @12:00 = classic Charlie Finley as an Oakland A's fan in '70s I wished Finley would disappear soon & stay gone + I loved everything about the entertaining, gritty, talented rosters he put together & the character of the "characters" on that responsibility who delivered all the goods
