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Teams By Year with Historical Events |
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Teams Slideshow
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Take a look back into
history, of which teams were
playing by year, and which teams Kansas City had at the same time in a
given year. You'll also be able to see what periods
of time Kansas City might have been
without a certain sports team.
The below table will give you a better perspective in how short a time period some teams lasted, while how long a duration others called KC home. Also note what historical events happened during a teams playing years. What teams were playing when you were born? Note some popular team nicknames have been used more than by one team......Blues, Royals, and Steers.
How would two excellent teams of different eras play against each other? Check out What If Sports Simulation Games.
For more detail on Kansas City Sports Team History, click here
The below table will give you a better perspective in how short a time period some teams lasted, while how long a duration others called KC home. Also note what historical events happened during a teams playing years. What teams were playing when you were born? Note some popular team nicknames have been used more than by one team......Blues, Royals, and Steers.
How would two excellent teams of different eras play against each other? Check out What If Sports Simulation Games.
For more detail on Kansas City Sports Team History, click here
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A historical
look at
the Kansas City sports teams logos.
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| YEAR |
KC Baseball Team |
KC Football Team |
KC Basketball Team |
KC Hockey Team |
KC Soccer Team |
Historical
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| 1865 |
Antelopes |
President Lincoln assassinated. Andrew Johnson then
becomes US President. U.S. Confederacy and the Civil War
ends. Slavery is abolished. US stamp-2 cents. |
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| 1866 |
Antelopes | Jesse James first hold up bank robbery. Congress authorizes a five cent coin, the nickel. Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. |
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| 1867 |
Antelopes | US acquires Alaska from Russia for $7.2million. Nebraska becomes the 37th US State. The City of Kansas forms its first fire fighting company. |
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| 1868 |
Antelopes | The Great Train Robbery of $98,000 in cash. Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. Typewriter is invented. |
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| 1869 |
Antelopes | American Football is invented. Ulysses S. Grant becomes US President. The golden spike is nailed as two railroads are joined at Promontory, Utah, creating first transcontinental railroad. The Cincinnati Red Stockings field the first fully professional baseball team and tour coast-to-coast. First bridge opens in the City of Kansas to cross the Missouri River, the Hannibal Bridge. The Suez Canal opens. |
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| 1870 |
The City of Kansas stockyard is founded. top |
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| 1871 |
The Great Chicago Fire. First professional baseball league started. The Kansas City stockyards flourish and becomes second only to Chicago in size and the city is identified with its Kansas City Steak. |
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| 1872 |
Susan B. Anthony and other women are arrested for trying to
vote. Yellowstone Park is created. |
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| 1873 |
First running of the Preakness Stakes. |
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| 1874 |
Gold rush in the Dakota Territory. The City of Kansas builds and operates its first water plant. |
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| 1875 |
First running of the Kentucky Derby |
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| 1876 |
The National League of Baseball is organized. Those teams included Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Philadelphia, Boston, Hartford, and New York. Custers last stand...Battle at the Little Big Horn. United States celebrates 100 years as a nation. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Colorado becomes a US State. First Heinz ketchup. |
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| 1877 |
First Wimbeldon championship of lawn tennis. Rutherford B. Hayes becomes US President. First telephones west of the Mississippi River were installed in Kansas City. |
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| 1878 |
First pathology lab was established in the US. |
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| 1879 |
Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light. |
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| 1880 |
The Kansas City Star newspaper was established by William
Rockhill Nelson. Fairyland Park opens in Kansas City top |
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| 1881 |
James Garfield becomes US President and is later shot. Chester Arthur then becomes US President. Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ. |
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| 1882 |
Jesse James shot in the back and killed. |
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| 1883 |
The Brooklyn Bridge opens. |
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| 1884 |
Unions |
First baseball World Series matches the National League
against the American League champions. First and only year of the Union Association, baseball league. |
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| 1885 |
Cowboys |
Grover Cleveland becomes US President. |
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| 1886 |
Cowboys Blues |
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated. Coca cola is sold as a tonic in an Atlanta pharmacy. The first Sporting News magazine is published. |
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| 1887 |
Cowboys Blues |
Pendergast era starts in the City of Kansas. |
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| 1888 |
Cowboys Blues |
Eastman's Kodak camera begins amateur photography. |
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| 1889 |
Cowboys | Oklahoma land rush is opened to settlers (Oklahama Sooners!) The City of Kansas (since 1821) officially became known as Kansas City. Benjamin Harrison becomes US President. North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington becomes US States. |
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| 1890 |
Maroons Cowboys |
Idaho and Wyoming becomes US States. top |
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| 1891 |
Maroons Cowboys |
Thomas Edison patents a motion picture camera called a
"kinetoscope". Basketball is invented by James Naismith, and using peach baskets. |
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| 1892 |
Maroons Cowboys |
Kansas City develops the city's parks and boulevard systems.
First World Heavyweight Boxing Championship Fight. |
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| 1893 |
Maroons Cowboys |
First Stanley Cup in ice hockey, with Montreal AAA the
winner. Grover Cleveland becomes US President for a second time. |
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| 1894 |
Maroons Cowboys |
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| 1895 |
Maroons Cowboys |
First US Open of Golf. Volleyball is invented. First professional football game played in the USA. |
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| 1896 |
Maroons Cowboys |
First modern Olympic games in Athens, Greece. The backboard is added to the game of basketball. Swope Park is dedicated in Kansas City. Utah is admitted to the United States as the 45th state. The Klondike gold rush begins. |
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| 1897 |
Maroons Cowboys |
First Boston Marathon is run. Willliam McKinley becomes US President. Kansas City became the second (to Chicago) busiest train center in the country. |
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| 1898 |
Maroons Cowboys |
"Remember the Maine!"....Spanish American War. First professional basketball league is formed with players earning $2.50 for home games and $1.25 for road games. A touchdown in the NFL is changed from 4 to 5 points. |
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| 1899 |
Maroons Cowboys |
The annual horse
and livestock show known as the American Royal begins in Kansas City.
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| 1900 |
Cowboys | In 1900, Ban Johnson changed the name of his small ‘Western League’ to the ‘American League’ in hope of adding additional cities to his league. Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis agreed to form baseball's American League. Major hurricane ravages Galveston, TX, with 6-8,000 dead. Jazz music develops in New Orleans. top |
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| 1901 |
Cowboys | William McKinley becomes US President for second time and is
later shot. Theodore Roosevelt then becomes US President. The first radio receiver invented. First Men's NCAA College Basketball Championship to Yale. |
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| 1902 |
Cowboys Blue Stockings Blues |
First Rose Bowl football game, Michigan vs. Stanford. Neon light and air conditioner are invented. First NFL game played at night. |
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| 1903 |
Cowboys Blue Stockings Blues |
First flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. First modern baseball World Series, Pittsburgh vs. Boston, best of 9 game series, with the Boston Red Sox winners. First Tour De France bicycle race. |
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| 1904 |
Blues | Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, MO with only 13
countries. Peanut butter, hamburgers, ice cream cones and iced tea
introduced at the Worlds Fair in St. Louis. |
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| 1905 |
Blues | Theodore Roosevelt becomes US President again. First movie theater opens in Pittsburgh, PA. |
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| 1906 |
Blues | Great earthquake in San Francisco. The forward pass became legal in the NFL. |
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| 1907 |
Blues | Oklahoma becomes a US State. The first piloted helicopter and color photography are invented. The Big 8 college sports conference is founded, originally known as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Assn. |
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| 1908 |
Blues | Americans start singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". Ford's Model T sold at cost of $850 and only available in the color black. |
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| 1909 |
Blues Giants |
William Taft becomes US President. Kansas City Zoo dedicates its first building in Swope Park. First Grey Cup, for winner of the Canadian Football League. A field goal in the NFL was dropped from 4 to 3 points. |
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| 1910 |
Blues Giants |
First talking motion picture. The Boy Scouts of America are incorporated. top |
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| 1911 |
Blues Giants |
First Indianapolis 500 race with the winner at an average
speed of under 75 mph. Kansas City converts from horse-drawn to motorized ambulances. |
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| 1912 |
Blues Giants All Nations |
The Titanic sinks. Arizona and New Mexico become US states. First Oreo cookies. Native American Jim Thorpe Becomes World's Greatest Athlete and wins eight gold medals at the Olympics including the demanding Pentathlon and Decathlon. A NFL touchdown is increased from 5 to 6 points. |
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| 1913 |
Blues Giants All Nations |
Woodrow Wilson becomes US President. The bra and zipper are invented. |
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| 1914 |
Packers Blues Giants All Nations |
World War I begins. The Panama canal opens to traffic. First year of new Federal baseball league. |
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| 1915 |
Packers Blues Giants All Nations |
First long distance phone service between New York and San
Francisco. Last year of Federal baseball league. |
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| 1916 |
Blues All Nations |
Radio tuners invented that receive different stations. Olympic games cancelled due to World War I. First mechanical home refrigerators. |
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| 1917 |
Blues All Nations |
The National Hockey League is formed. Woodrow Wilsons becomes US President for the second term. US enters World War I. |
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| 1918 |
Blues All Nations |
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series with Babe Ruth
pitching. |
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| 1919 |
Blues | US prohibition begins. Pop-up toaster invented. World War I ends. Black Sox scandal with eight Chicago White Sox players agree to throw the World Series. |
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| 1920 |
Blues Monarchs |
The National Football League was formed. The urban legend, "Curse of the Bambino" starts with Babe Ruth being sold by Boston to New York. Babe slugs 54 Yankee homers. Andrew Foster formed the 1st black baseball league, the Negro National League, at a meeting at the Colored YMCA, Kansas City, MO. Women given the right to vote. The "Roaring Twenties" begin. top |
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| 1921 |
Blues Monarchs |
Warren Harding becomes US President. The nations World War I memorial, the "Liberty Memorial" is dedicated in Kansas City. First radio coverage of the Major League Baseball's World Series. First Wonder Bread. |
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| 1922 |
Blues Monarchs |
The country Club Plaza of
Kansas City, Mo., opened as an elite alternative to downtown shopping
and was the 1st retailing concept to rely upon shoppers arriving by
car. The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC. |
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| 1923 |
Blues Monarchs |
Warren Harding dies while in office. Calvin Coolidge
then becomes US President. Frozen food is invented. Yankee Stadium opens in the Bronx, New York. The Charleston dance becomes popular. First Le Mans race. |
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| 1924 |
Blues Monarchs |
Blues |
First Winter Olympic Games in the French Alps. Baseball’s first "colored World Series" was held in Kansas City, Mo at Muelbach Park. First Wheaties cereal. |
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| 1925 |
Blues Monarchs |
Cowboys |
Calvin Coolidge becomes US President. Post your comments about Kansas City sports teams with historical events. |
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| 1926 |
Blues Monarchs |
Cowboys |
Re-dedication of the Liberty Memorial on Armistice Day, the
Nations World War I
memorial in Kansas City. Cost of Model T car drops to $310. |
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| 1927 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors |
Charles Lindberg flys solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Aerosol can is patented. Kansas City Fire Dept uses its last horse-drawn equipment, changing to firetrucks. Babe Ruth breaks the single season home run record by slugging 60 round trippers. |
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| 1928 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | First scheduled TV broadcasts (NY). Bubble gum is invented. Women compete for the first time in Olympic field events. First Mickey Mouse movie, Steamboat Willie. Notre Dame Rallies to Beat Favored Army 12-6 After Knute Rockne's Famous Halftime Speech,"Win won for the Gipper". |
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| 1929 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | Herbert Hoover becomes US President. The Stock Market crash and Great Depression. The "St. Valentines Day Massacre". The Yo-Yo becomes an American fad. |
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| 1930 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | top First Soccer World Cup- Uruguay vs. Argentina. First Hostess Twinkie. |
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| 1931 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | The Star Spangled Banner is adopted as the National Anthem. Under the Pendergast political machine, Kansas City construction projects begin for a new city hall, courthouse, police building, Municipal Auditorium, water works system, public market, paving of Brush Creek and hospitals. The Empire State Building is completed. |
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| 1932 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | The "Lindberg kidnapping" and kidnapping becomes a federal
crime. Babe Ruth's called shot (homer) in Game 3 of the World Series. Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA. Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA. US stamp-3 cents. |
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| 1933 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors Greyhounds |
Nelson-Atkins Museum opens in Kansas City. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes US President. Prohibition is repealed. Kansas City's Union Station Massacre. Baseball's first All Star game in Cominsky Park in Chicago. "Wheaties-Breakfast of Champions" slogan started and athletes began to be depicted on the boxes. |
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| 1934 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | The Dust Bowl begins. Nylon is first produced. First Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, GA. First All-American Soap Box Derby. |
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| 1935 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | Babe Ruth retires from baseball, leading with 714 career
homers. First night baseball game is played with FDR throwing the switch. Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum established to celebrate the game's 100th anniversary. Municipal Auditorium is dedicated in Kansas City, at its time, the second largest convention facility in the US. The first canned beer made. The Monopoly game is patented. First Orange Bowl football game, Bucknell vs. Miami-FL. First Sugar Bowl football game, Tulane vs. Temple. First "Heisman" Trophy award, originally known as the DAC Trophy for the Downtown Athletic Club of New York City. |
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| 1936 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Olympic games in
Berlin. Japans first professional baseball league is formed. Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, is completed, creating the largest reservoir in the world. First electric guitar. The center jump is eliminated after each basket from the game of basketball. |
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| 1937 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | Franklin Roosevelt becomes US President for second time. Photocopier is invented. The Hindenberg disaster is the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast. The Golden Gate Bridge is completed. First Cotton Bowl football game, TCU vs. Marquette. Spam was invented. |
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| 1938 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | Ballpoint pen is invented. First Superman comic book. Cincinnati Reds Johnny Vander Meer pitches 18 innings with no hits. |
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| 1939 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds | World War II begins. The first NCAA basketball "Final Four" tournament. Baseball Hall of Fame opens. Lou Gehrig retires from baseball by delivering "Luckiest Man" farewell speech. Cincinnati pitcher Johnny Vander Meer throws two no-hitters within four days. First NFL football game broadcast on TV between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers. First MLB baseball game broadcast on TV between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz movies premier. First Batman comic book. |
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1940 |
Blues Monarchs |
Greyhounds Americans |
Seabiscuit becomes the top money earner in horse racing of
all time. First color television. Outdoor swimming pool built at Swope Park in Kansas City. NCAA basketball tournament played in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium with Indiana the winner. Olympic games cancelled due to World War II. Little League Baseball is formed. top |
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| 1941 |
Blues Monarchs |
Americans |
Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first and only US President
elected for a third term. Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a "date which will live in infamy" says FDR. USA enters World War II. Boston Red Sox Ted Williams is the last batter in MLB to hit over .400. New York Yankees Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak. First M&M's and Cheerios. |
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| 1942 |
Blues Monarchs |
Americans |
Kansas City Monarchs win the Negro Leagues World Series. Due to World War II, in the US, sugar, gasoline and coffee are rationed while sales of new cars and trucks are banned. First Pan American Games. |
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| 1943 |
Blues Monarchs |
The slinky and silly putty are invented. With the war efforts, meat, cheese, fat, canned goods and shoes are rationed. The Kansas City Monarchs win 43 straight games. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed to give fans something else to watch during WW II. The Hockey Hall of Fame is established. |
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| 1944 |
Blues Monarchs |
D-Day. Battle of the Bulge. Olympic
games cancelled due to World War II. 3 second lane rule added to basketball. |
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| 1945 |
Blues Monarchs |
Pla-Mors | President Franklin Roosevelt dies in office. Harry S.
Truman then becomes US President. Baseball's
All Star game called off due to the War. The atomic bomb is invented and dropped on Japan. World War II ends. Jackie Robinson has a season batting average of .345 for the Kansas City Monarchs. Ushers ejected a mans ticket holding pet goat to enter Wrigley Field for a Chicago Cubs game, thus starting the Cubs "Curse of the Billy Goat" urban legend. |
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| 1946 |
Blues Monarchs |
Stars |
Pla-Mors | The National Basketball Association is formed. (originally
known as the Basketball Association of America.) United Nations is formed. The first electronic, programmable, general-purpose computer is invented, called the "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer". The microwave oven is invented. First Gator Bowl football game, Wake Forest vs. S. Carolina. |
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| 1947 |
Blues Monarchs |
Blues Hi-Spots |
Pla-Mors | Jackie Robinson breaks baseball color barrier in Major
League Baseball. UFO crash in Roswell, NM. The CIA is
established. First NBA Basketball Championship with the Philadelphia
Warriors vs.
the Chicago Stags. First College World Series. |
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| 1948 |
Blues Monarchs Stars |
Blues Hi-Spots |
Pla-Mors | The State of Israel is recognized. Velcro and the frisbee are invented. Truman defeats Dewey. NASCAR was founded. |
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| 1949 |
Blues Monarchs Stars |
Pla-Mors Mohawks |
Harry S. Truman becomes US President for second term. NATO is formed. The National Basketball Hall of Fame opens. |
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| 1950 |
Blues Monarchs Stars |
Hi-Spots |
Mohawks Royals |
Korean War begins. Starlight Theater opens in Kansas City. The first credit card (Diners Card) The first National Basketball Association championship is played. The Minneapolis Lakers defeat the Syracuse Nationals. National Soccer Hall of Fame opened. top |
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| 1951 |
Blues Monarchs |
Hi-Spots |
Mohawks Royals |
Major Flood in Kansas City. Power steering and super glue are invented. Bobby Thompsons walk off homer for the NY Giants to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the "shot heard round the world". First MLB baseball game on TV in color, Brooklyn Dodgers vs. the Boston Braves. |
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| 1952 |
Blues Monarchs |
Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth. Mr. Potato Head is patented. First diet soft drink. |
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| 1953 |
Blues Monarchs |
Dwight Eisenhower becomes US President. Korean War ends. Mickey Mantle hits a 565 foot home run. |
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| 1954 |
Blues Monarchs |
McDonalds Restaurant serves its first hamburger. First Tonight Show hosted by Steve Allen. Willie Mays makes a brilliant over the shoulder catch in the World Series, one of the greatest plays of all time. |
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| 1955 |
Monarchs Athletics |
The Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City. President Truman throws out the first pitch at the first Kansas City A's game. First Disneyland Theme Park opens in Anaheim, CA. |
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| 1956 |
Monarchs Athletics |
Elvis made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. NY Yankees Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the World Series. The Ten Commandments movie premiers. |
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| 1957 |
Monarchs Athletics |
KayCees |
Dwight Eisenhower becomes US President for second time. Soviets launch Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Kansas City's Broadway toll bridge opens. |
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| 1958 |
Monarchs Athletics |
KayCees |
The Dodgers move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and the New
York Giants move to San Francisco. The Hoola Hoop and laser are invented. Professional Bowlers Association formed. First Pizza Hut opens in Wichita, KS. US stamp-4 cents. |
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| 1959 |
Monarchs Athletics |
Alaska becomes the 49th US State. Hawaii becomes the 50th state. First Daytona 500 race. First Barbie Doll. From 1959 to 1962, TWO baseball All Star games are played each year. First Liberty Bowl football game, Penn St. vs. Alabama. After a shot broke his nose, Montreal's Jacques Plante became the first hockey goalie to wear a mask. |
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| 1960 |
Monarchs Athletics |
Vietnam War begins. Kansas City is host to baseball's All Star Game at Municipal Stadium. First Olympics games on TV for the Summer games in Rome. Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, USA. Pittsburgh Pirates Bill Mazeroski's 9th inning home run wins game 7 of the World Series over the NY Yankees. top |
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