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Early 1900's Kansas City Panorama Photo
Kansas City has a long baseball history, with many minor league teams named the Kansas City Blues playing in various minor leagues through 1900. The Western league, in which Kansas City played, became the American league in 1900. In 1901, Ban Johnson, leader of the league, decided to declare the league a major league. The Baltimore team was moved to New York and became the Highlanders, later called the Yankees. The Kansas City Blues team was forced by the league to relocate to Washington D.C. Years later, the Washington franchise moved to Minnesota and became the Minnesota Twins. Kansas City also had the phenominal Kansas City Monarchs team in the Negro American league. They were usually the class of the league and a legendary team that employed Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, and Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe and newly elected Hall of Famer Pioneer/Executive Buck O'Neil. In 1955, the Philadelpha Athletics moved to Kansas City and became the Kansas City Athletics. The Athletics moved to Oakland to begin play in 1968, and in 1969 an expansion franchise called the Kanas City Roylas began play. The offered photo is from an unidentifed Kansas City team circa early 1900s, and thus probably the Kansas City Blues, won stayed in Kansas City through the 1954 season, in later years a farm team of the New York Yankees, and Mickey Mantle played for the Blues. The displayed panorama photo has 24 persons in uniform, with the older gentleman in the middle most likely the manager, and to his left, in civilian clothes, probably the owner . The photo measures 6.75 x 19". It shows paper loss in a number of places along the bottom edge, with several tears. The top left corner exhibits small paper loss. Except for the paper loss, the photo is in good condition, and it is representatvive of the early days of baseball in Kansas City.
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