T-Bones Remember the Forogtten Kansas City Athletics

By ERIC BARTON

The Kansas City T-Bones announced recently that they will honor former Kansas City Athletics players at this promotion on August 16. It may seem odd for one team to honor another, especially one that fizzled out so famously.

It’s a curious thing about sports how fans forget a departing team so fast. Take the Royals, for instance. Here’s a team that’s likely on its way to yet another 100-loss season. It hasn’t made a run at the playoffs in a decade. Yes, a decade. But still you see guys dressed in Royals gear from visor to shoelaces, headphones tuned to the radio broadcast, keeping score at every home game. But if the Royals were to head to, say, the friendly confines of Las Vegas? The City Union Mission thrift store would be inundated with Royals clothes.

So while you don’t see any remnant of the long-departed KC Athletics around town, there’s plenty of documentation on the Web. Like this sweet photo of Municipal Stadium.

There’s also plenty of trinkets for sale on the online auctions. The best of them has to be this asexual doll that any father would surely be proud to give to his son.