Charlie Finley, A’s owner, wished he had stuck it out in KC

Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game returns to Kansas City in 2012.

When the exhibition last visited Kansas City, in 1973, baseball fans registered their displeasure that the Athletics had scooted from KC to Oakland. The crowd booed A’s manager Dick Williams, who was in charge of the American League squad by virtue of Oakland’s appearance in the 1972 World Series.

The man who moved the A’s, team owner Charlie O. Finley, eventually rethought his decision to leave Kansas City, according to the writers of a new biography.