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.
@QBAN2010
2 күн бұрын
Louisville deserves a big league team of some sort. Very underrated city in the 🇺🇸
@urbex_coasters
3 күн бұрын
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.
@scottgebow6539
16 күн бұрын
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.
@slundgr
17 күн бұрын
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.
@slundgr
17 күн бұрын
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.
@alexdunlevy9071
18 күн бұрын
What a solid video
@rickygoodman1294
20 күн бұрын
Catfish hunter, Reggie Jackson, campy capaneris, sal bando, Joe rudi, blue moon odom, dick green, Dave Duncan, etc. that's what I grew up with.
@user-ur4xb5ze8u
23 күн бұрын
You killed this video, great work
@gregorystratman1300
Ай бұрын
I can see the spirit of Jon Bois flowing through you
@michaelboggus9993
Ай бұрын
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 😊
@jerrysullivan8424
Ай бұрын
Your dad was correct.
@BooRadley-u2f
Ай бұрын
This is a great video history of the Kansas City Athletics. Beautiful graphics, beautiful maps, ... and that table!! Thank you, Adam Velasquez. Well done!!!
@user-ii1ce7kw7t
Ай бұрын
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
@user-ol2so9ce2q
Ай бұрын
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.
@ryanh1892
Ай бұрын
It's interesting hearing the KC lease challenges of the past and then comparing them to the current stadium debate!
@user-gw9sk1zy4s
Ай бұрын
Was Del Webb mobbed up?
@poindextertunes
Ай бұрын
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 👌🏻
@1cardplayer
2 ай бұрын
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.
@RWGish
2 ай бұрын
The A's were so bad that in 13 years in Kansas City they not only never had a winning season, they never even had a winning month.
@seattlefan8890
2 ай бұрын
Beautifully told and illustrated story. Only flaw: The pronunciation of Roger Maris' name.
@amb2745
2 ай бұрын
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.
@gofusmoholl3462
2 ай бұрын
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.
@tommyriam8320
2 ай бұрын
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
@GizmoBeach
2 ай бұрын
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.
@williamrobinson827
2 ай бұрын
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. :)
@JohnAsmith-rw6uo
2 ай бұрын
Should have stayed in KC.
@richarddenny5340
2 ай бұрын
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.
@BearIslandComics
2 ай бұрын
This is a great video and I hope this channel succeeds. One note: the correct pronunciation of Roger Maris’ last name is like “Paris”.
@pmmulhol
2 ай бұрын
Great video! Now do Oakland?
@thesjlawshow759
2 ай бұрын
Orioles had a big rivalry with the Athletics in the 70s
@kennetholiver9651
3 ай бұрын
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
@dr.migilitoloveless2385
3 ай бұрын
The A's were the favorite unofficial farm team of the New York Yankees in the 1950s
@dr.migilitoloveless2385
3 ай бұрын
Soon to be the Las Vegas Athletics
@Low-Fi-SCOTT
3 ай бұрын
This is so good
@eyesonyou99
3 ай бұрын
Superbly crafted!! Beautifully done!!!
@jamallinyear3465
3 ай бұрын
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.
@nostalgia6578
3 ай бұрын
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!
@daltonfarris
4 ай бұрын
I hate the royals, as a cardinals fan. This was an excellently made video
@waynejohanson1083
4 ай бұрын
I wonder what the people of K.C. thought when they left and a few years later the team had a dynasty.
@kevinvanmeter2264
4 ай бұрын
And now...they go to Sacramento.
@joshsimpson79
4 ай бұрын
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.
@williamford9564
5 ай бұрын
19:25: Well, that "owner who could not get out of his own way" did pretty darn good, winning three World Series championships in a row.
@jakecolvin3167
5 ай бұрын
Update please?!
@kmac1766
5 ай бұрын
Excellent content. Subscribed!👍
@michaelleroy9281
6 ай бұрын
Although the A's had their best record in Kansas City in 1966( 74-86) attendance still wasn't that great it was still well under 1 million
@geoaltman9344
6 ай бұрын
Brilliant video. As a huge fan of the Mariner's one, this certainly gripped me and I encourage you to keep putting these out! Sub time
@geoaltman9344
6 ай бұрын
714th subscriber and I live in the OC! Do my Angels next XD
@fucore85
6 ай бұрын
I’ve been a Chiefs fan since Steve Deberg era. The wait has been worth every second!! Thank you Andy and Pat💯
@oughtssought1198
7 ай бұрын
"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
@davidcameron4053
8 ай бұрын
Outstanding-caliber exposé’ on the KC A’s. Should win an Emmy. I sat in my car to watch this after work on my phone.
@staringatthesun861
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. This is so well-edited and researched, I wish you could make more videos. About anything. When something is crafted as well as this, it breathes life into any subject imaginable. I greatly look forward to your next video, whenever it does happen.
@ernestcruz6316
8 ай бұрын
Very nice job on the documentary Adam. That last KC A's team in '67 saw the debut of future Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson. They also had good young players John "Blue Moon" Odom, Jim "Catfish" Hunter (another future HOF player), Sal Bando, Joe Rudi and Rick Monday, and young veteran shortstop Bert Campaneris.
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