Editing Kansas City Royals (section)

===Baseball returns to Kansas City===
[[File:1989 Kansas City Royals away uniform.jpg|thumb|The Royals wore their trademark powder blue road uniforms from 1973 to 1991 and reintroduced it in 2008 as an alternate jersey.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 5, 2007 |title=Royals to create new uniform tradition with powder blue alternates for 2008 |url=http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20071205&content_id=2318572&vkey=pr_kc&fext=.jsp&c_id=kc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031035855/http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20071205&content_id=2318572&vkey=pr_kc&fext=.jsp&c_id=kc |archive-date=October 31, 2014 |access-date=October 28, 2014 |website=Kansas City Royals |publisher=MLB Advanced Media, LP}}</ref>]]When the [[Kansas City Athletics]] moved to [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] after the [[1967 in baseball|1967 season]], Kansas City was left without major league baseball or, for the first time since 1883, professional baseball at all. The team was led by [[Charlie Finley]], who explored many elaborate relocation plans and essentially shunned Kansas City before the team even relocated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/cities-that-almost-had-an-mlb-team|title=Cities that almost had an MLB team|last=Castrovince|first=Anthony|website=MLB.com|date=January 9, 2022|access-date=January 20, 2022|language=en}}</ref> An enraged [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Stuart Symington]] of Missouri threatened to introduce legislation removing baseball's antitrust exemption unless Kansas City was granted a team in the next round of expansion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wshs.org/wshs/columbia/articles/0200-a2.htm |title=The Seattle Pilots—Major League Baseball's First Venture in the Pacific Northwest<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-date=April 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422003453/http://www.wshs.org/wshs/columbia/articles/0200-a2.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>  Major League Baseball complied with a hasty round of expansion at the 1967 winter meetings. Kansas City was awarded one of four teams to begin play in 1971. However, Symington was not satisfied with having Kansas City wait three years for baseball to return, and pressured MLB to allow the new teams to start play in 1969. Symington's intervention may have contributed to the financial collapse of the Royals' companion expansion team, the [[Seattle Pilots]], who had to begin play in 1969 before they were ready (the league required new franchises to enter in pairs to preserve symmetry for scheduling purposes).

Pharmaceutical executive [[Ewing Kauffman]] won the bidding for the new Kansas City team. He conducted a contest to determine the best and most appropriate name for the new franchise. Sanford Porte from Overland Park, Kansas submitted the name Royals, in recognition of Missouri's billion-dollar livestock industry. His suggestion was that the [[American Royal]] best exemplified Kansas City through its pageantry and parade, so the new team should be named the Royals. The name was selected out of 17,000 submissions and the Royals Board voted 6–1 to adopt the name. The one dissenting vote was Kauffman's. He eventually changed his mind after the name grew on him. (Some sources say it was in honor of the [[Kansas City Monarchs]], a [[Negro leagues]] team.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mlb-teams.com/royals.php |title=Kansas City Royals : Royals news, history and pictures<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=May 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817225631/http://www.mlb-teams.com/royals.php |archive-date=August 17, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The team's logo, a crown atop a shield with the letters "KC" inside the shield, was created by Shannon Manning, an artist at [[Hallmark Cards]], based in Kansas City.<ref name="Crowning Achievement">Forr, James. [http://seamheads.com/2011/12/07/crowning-achievement-the-man-behind-the-kansas-city-royals-logo/ Crowning Achievement: The Man Behind the Kansas City Royals Logo] ''Seamheads.com'', December 7, 2011.</ref>