View Full Version : What was the reaction when the A's went back to KC for the first time?
So when the Oakland A's visited KC for the first time what was the reaction of the fans?
VIBaseball
02-25-2009, 11:32 AM
Retrosheet tells us it took place on April 19, 1969 before a crowd of 16,747 (the game was nationally televised). It was not KC's home opener. John "Blue Moon" Odom beat Roger Nelson 2-1, with 9th-inning help from Lew Krausse. It didn't happen often, but Dick Green (3 for 4 with the second RBI) was the hitting star.
The Oakland Tribune said, "booing followed every mention of 'Oakland' or 'Athletics.'"
Green added, "I know who they're booing. Not us. They're booing our owner."
VIBaseball
02-25-2009, 01:40 PM
Some more good stuff from the Fremont (CA) Argus:
KCGHOST
02-25-2009, 01:47 PM
For ten years or so KC just burned when the A's came to town. Forty years later and Charley Finley in the ground and it doesn't even hit the radar.
PlayJay
03-28-2009, 04:14 PM
I remember watching the All Star Game in 1973, when Kansas City hosted the game. Every time A's players were introduced, the crowd booed lustily.
It must've really tore at these people to see the world championships that team won, before crowds of vendors and tarp pullers and few other humans at the Mausoleum.
SteveJRogers
05-25-2009, 08:52 PM
For ten years or so KC just burned when the A's came to town. Forty years later and Charley Finley in the ground and it doesn't even hit the radar.
I'd imagine the emergence of the Royals dynasty in the West, and the decline of the Finley A's had something to do with that as well.