Last weekend, I bought a dark green baseball hat with nice "KC" lettering on the front.
As a graphic designer, I have a weakness for cool fonts and lettering. This is an example of one of those moments where the logo won me over before the team.
So I buy the hat and realize that the Oakland Athletics logo is also on the hat in the back, very small. Thanks to google, I find out that before Oakland, Kansas City was home of the Athletics, from 1955-1967.
They played in a place called Municipal Stadium, located at 18th and Vine, which was the heart of the action way back when.
I dream of walking to a Royals ball game in downtown KC. This will never happen, at least maybe not in the next 50 years, but this stadium really looks cool.
Below is a video with some footage.
Turns out that the Athletics were never really good at baseball in the midwest. They played about as good as the Royals do, average to below average. The history however, is just as sweet to me — and I love thinking about the bygone era of attending a KC Athletics game in downtown Kansas City.
And one final surprise, the owner of the Athletics, Charles O. Finley, paid $150,000 in 1964 to bring in the Beatles for a 1 hour show at their Stadium. They opened with a medley of "Kansas City" and "Hey, hey, hey, hey."
Two surprises - 1. Apparently, only half of the tickets sold to the show because Mr. Finley had some serious PR issues with the town. 2.They managed to bring them in last minute on a scheduled rest day.
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