Kansas City Royals

The Royals won the World Series in 1985 and again in 2015, thirty years apart, from four pennants in 57 seasons at 4,290-4,703. An expansion club of 1969, they were in the playoffs by their eighth season and won three straight division titles from 1976.

The 1977 club won 102, more than any other Kansas City side. The 2005 team lost 106. Home was Municipal Stadium and then Royals Stadium from 1973, later renamed for the club's owner Ewing Kauffman, which was among the first parks built for baseball alone after two decades of stadiums shared with football.

Five Hall of Famers have played here, the fewest of any club with fifty seasons behind it, and George Brett is the one who matters: he played all 21 of his seasons for the Royals, got his 3,000th hit in one, and was at the center of the Pine Tar Game, which this archive gives its own page. Whitey Herzog managed the club to three division titles and Dick Howser to the 1985 championship.