What Are the Kansas City Royals Named After?
What Are the Kansas City Royals Named After?
10/15/2014 7:04PM     
The American Royal in Kansas City is one of the country's largest annual livestock shows. But most people don't know it's also the namesake of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
         
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... I ... the the the ... city workers had any major League baseball's postseason since nineteen eighty five ... now the Royals are in awe and are going to the World series ... since only baseball screens everywhere color wheels fever ... but despite nonstop national coverage ... hardly anyone in Kansas City seems to know the name Roils comes from ... not even the players ... clue ... it has nothing to do with Buckingham Palace ... to the city's Doctor district home to horse smells in cow manure Aso said one of the nation's largest into livestock shows every fall since eighteen ninety nine ... it's called the American Royal ... and its crew necks in two months of rodeos ... or shows and barbecue ... in three years to count on was seen through the eyes of the American Royal ... so when baseball was cut to Kansas City nineteen sixty nine ... it only made sense in and the team the Royals ... but soon after that references to livestock in the mirror can Royal full sign ... the civic efforts from old Kansas City as a glimmers to be separated from the stock York history ... over the years Kansas City chains into attack on ... housing companies like dominance friends ... team officials rarely ever reference going arguments that helped give the team it's in its ... designated hitter Billy Butler says he thought the team name refers to royalty ... like the crown the King ... he doesn't know where it came from ... something instinctive teams for coming to life stock reflects an insight How attitude is counting on he got a hold on to read ... not to worry ... while the Royals are playing postseason ball for the first time in nearly three decades ... their namesake weakening prize ribbons on kids across town ... at the mirror can wail
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