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• Game thread LXXXIV - Dodgers at RoyalsThe only picture in the library for the Monarchs that features a Royal is this photo of Hunter Dozier walking off the field following a game against the Cardinals on September 22, 2020 | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images If the Royals really want to salute the Negro Leagues, they’ll do a win like the Monarchs so often did. The Royals, for all intents and purposes, haven’t had many superstars du...2025Read about Hunter Dozier headline news -
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta selects Chipper Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB draftBraves Franchise History 1952 - The Reds purchased veteran outfielder Willard Marshall from the Boston Braves. 1975 - The Braves draft second baseman Glenn Hubbard in the 20th round of the MLB Draft. 1986 - Barry Bonds hits his first career home run off of Craig McMurtry in a 12-3 Pirates win over the Braves. Bonds will finish with four hits in the game. 1990 - Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Bra...2025Read about Chipper Jones -
• Baseball history unpacked, June 4Don Zimmer | Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, ‘Popeye’ Zimmer passes and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the cou...2025See more articles Nixey Callahan rumors -
• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 10, 2025Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images The key to the Royals’ success? Yacht rock. Pete Grathoff writes that the Royals clubhouse has been fueled lately by Yacht Rock. “You look at the formula of our games, and just winning teams in general, pitching and defense are always what you want to come back to,” starting pitcher Kris Bubic said as Earth, Wind and Fire’s “The Way You Move” played. “And ...2025See more Kris Bubic latest news -
• Yankees series preview: ALDS rematchPhoto by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Royals travel to the Bronx to face the team that bested them in the post-season last year. Last fall the Royals made a surprise run at the post-season, eventually falling in the ALDS to a historical post-season rival, the New York Yankees. While the Royals retained much of their post-season roster, the Yankees had a lot of churn this off-season, and w...2025Read about Jamie Squire news -
• Today in White Sox History: April 2On this day a year ago, Garrett Crochet set a couple of franchise marks. | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images Garrett Crochet makes history in his second start 1900 The White Sox played their first-ever game, an exhibition win over the University of Illinois baseball team, 10-9. That season, the American League wasn’t considered a major league (the AL would band together with the National League...2025Continue with White Sox news
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 4
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• Today in White Sox History: March 21Dude, where did my season go? Paul Assenmacher was aces for the White Sox in his sole South Side season of 1994, running up 0.9 WAR in roughly two-thirds of a summer. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images The South Siders swap for a sly southpaw 1900 After a meeting with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs), the way was cleared for Charles Comiskey to bring his team from St. Paul, Minn. to Chicago. They would s...2025Read about White Sox injury -
• It’s time to honor George SpriggsThe former Royals player was once a Negro Leaguer. Now that Cedric Tallis, the Royals' first general manager, and architect of their early success has been inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame, I need to find a new windmill to tilt at. My other pet project over the years has been for the club to bestow some type of recognition on George Spriggs. Spriggs’ contract was purchased by Tallis from the ...2025Click for news about Cedric Tallis injuries -
• Baseball Hall of Fame announces Classic Baseball Era BallotPhoto by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Some Hall of Fame candidates will get a second look. The National Baseball Hall of Fame has released the nominees for the Classic Baseball Era Ballot, which includes eight candidates whose primary contributions occurred before 1980. The candidates include Dick Allen, Ken Boyer, John Donaldson, Steve Garvey, Vic Harris, Tommy John, Dave Parker, and Luis ...2024See more Dick Allen -
• Baseball history unpacked, September 20Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ernie hits his first, no-hitters galore, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives t...2024Visit the page Louis Requena injury update -
• Royals Rumblings - News for June 24, 2024Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images I miss when the Boys Were Playing Some Ball. The Royals scuffled on offense, getting swept for the first time this year. “We’re going to keep playing hard,” Royals catcher and captain Salvador Perez said. “We’re going to forget about today. It’s over. Bad series for us. We concentrate on tomorrow and try to win the series at home.” Michael Wacha was solid...2024Read about Salvador Perez injury -
• Royals Rumblings - News for June 11, 2024Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Are some Royals hitters turning things around? Jaylon Thompson writes about Dan Altavilla’s return to the big leagues three years after his last appearance. “I was just sitting over at the hotel waiting to get the call to come over,” Altavilla said. “I was pretty anxious just to, you know, get in the car and drive over. But walking into the clubhouse bro...2024See more articles Julio Aguilar injury status -
• MLB is adding Negro League statistics to its official recordThe 1942 Homestead Grays, one of the greatest Negro League teams | Getty Images This is a wonderful thing. All of us know about the discrimination Black baseball players faced from the Major Leagues for decades, until Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in 1947. Black players had their own leagues for those decades, now collectively known as the Negro Leagues. Many of those players have...2024Visit the page Negro League injury
Kansas City Monarchs lifestyle
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 26, 2025Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images The best slugger in Northwest Arkansas Naturals history is back in Kansas City. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers and David Adler look at some of the intense work from Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. this spring at getting better on the basepaths. They’re incorporating audio components along with the visual technology on when to react, as well as ways to o...2025Read about Northwest Arkansas
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"Escarra spent time with the Kansas City Monarchs in the independent American Association." - 2024
"The Kansas City Monarchs were one of the Negro League powerhouse teams for several decades." - 2023
"1950 - Ernie Banks makes his pro debut with the Kansas City Monarchs and goes 3-for-7 in a doubleheader against the Memphis Red Sox." - 2022
"The Kansas City Monarchs of the independent American Association announced yesterday they’ve signed first baseman Matt Adams." - 2021
"The Kansas City T-Bones of the independent American Association are being renamed the Kansas City Monarchs after the team that played in the Negro Leagues." - 2019
"Sharon Robinson walked past the entrance mural that includes a portrait of her father, Jackie Robinson, as a member of the Kansas City Monarchs." - 2016
"In this date in 1943 the Kansas City Monarchs bested the Hilldale Athletic Club in Game 10 of the first Negro League World Series, and in 1963, Jim Brown set the single-season NFL rushing record." - 2015
"Just three years after Jackie Robinson left the Negro Leagues and took off the Kansas City Monarchs uniform to break the color barrier in baseball, Ernie began playing with the Monarchs before signing with the Chicago Cubs and breaking the color barrier on the North Side of Chicago." - 2014
"Almost 70 years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, the upstart Royals are using the same formula that made Robinson and his Negro leagues team, the Kansas City Monarchs, so compelling."
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta selects Chipper Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB draft
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• Today in White Sox History: April 2
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18The player who would set the first seasons-played mark for the White Sox, Billy Sullivan, jumped to the American League (and the South Side) on this day, 124 years ago. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Another great player is snatched from the National League 1901 After two seasons with Boston in the National League and ready to take on a bigger role at catcher, Billy Sullivan joined ...2025See more articles White Sox contract rumors -
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• The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidatesPhoto by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Luis Tiant, Dick Allen and Tommy John are among eight players on this year’s Classic Era ballot. The Baseball Hall of Fame has had some form of “Veterans Committee” ballot in its induction process going all the way back to 1939. The committees have taken various forms over the years, but the most recent process breaks up potential candidates into...2024Visit the page Louis Requena contract rumors -
• New book features lesser-known World Series stories, including those featuring the RoyalsSetNumber: X32251 TK6 R13 F18 “Shadows of Glory: Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories” offers stories you may not know about the Fall Classic. For all of the great, wonderful, and well-known stories about the World Series, there are just as many great, wonderful, and lesser-known stories from the Fall Classic, stories of which even diehard baseball fans are unaware. During the playof...2024See more World Series salary rumors
Kansas City Monarchs stats and results
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• Today in White Sox History: March 21
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• MLB is adding Negro League statistics to its official record
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 9, 2024Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Another baseball season is about to start. Brady Singer clamped down after a rocky opening to his 100th career start: Considerable turnover in recent years has put Kansas City in position to compete in 2024, but one constant has been Singer. “I was surprised, in a good way, to [learn that] he’s the 26th Royal to [make 100 career starts],” manager Matt Qu...2024See more Jamie Squire -
• Today in White Sox History: March 21On this day seven years ago, Tim Anderson committed to the White Sox with the biggest extension ever of its kind. TA makes a long-term commitment 1900 After a meeting with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs), the way was cleared for Charles Comiskey to bring his team from St. Paul, Minn. to Chicago. They would set up shop on the South Side of the city, as required by the Orphans. (In truth, Comisk...2024Visit the page White Sox scores -
• Today in White Sox History: March 21
Vance Law, the first of two Laws collected in March 1982, arrived in Chicago on this day, 41 years ago. | Focus on Sport/Getty Images The South Siders collect their first of two 1982 Laws 1900 After a meeting with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs), the way was cleared for Charles Comiskey to bring his team from St. Paul, Minn. to Chicago. They would set up shop on the South Side of the city, as ...2023See also White Sox scores
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 10, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 31, 2024Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images Boo! Bobby Witt Jr. sent out wedding invitations in the form of baseball cards: Bobby is a true 1/1. He sent his teammates their wedding invitations on baseball cards (via @mjmelendez, @pullwax) pic.twitter.com/HMY69ZQ56g— Topps (@Topps) October 30, 2024 Carter Jensen doesn’t feel added pressure from his KC roots: “It’s not as much...2024Check it out Jill Weisleder -
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• It’s time for the Royals to honor George SpriggsOur only alumni The Royals have made some significant moves this spring, inducting Bo Jackson, John Schuerholz and Cedric Tallis into the team’s Hall of Fame. Now that Tallis has been inducted, I’ll need to find a new windmill to tilt at. Bringing attention to the Tallis oversight has been one of my main passions the last five years and I’m very happy for the Tallis family to see this long-overdu...2024See more John Schuerholz -
• Royals Rumblings - News for March 1, 2024I got 5 images when I put in “Probably Sucking”, my new motto for the 2024 Royals. This is my favorite image | Photo by CHOO YOUN-KONG/AFP via Getty Images I hope everyone survived Leap Day If you didn’t see yesterday, a former Royal passed away: Hector Ortiz, who spent the past 18 years as a manager and coach in the Texas Rangers organization, has died after a long cancer battle.https:...2024Visit the page Texas Rangers -
• Royals Rumblings - News for September 22, 2023Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports Nellie is mashing. Jaylon Thompson talks to hitting coach Alec Zumwalt about Nelson Velázquez’s improvement. “We were in Seattle and he first mentioned to us about his hands, where he wanted his hands to be at, and it was based off of what he was watching (from) Bobby,” Zumwalt said. “How Bobby anchors his hands so well. And then literally even yesterday in BP...2023Continue with Peter Aiken -
• More than 30 active Chiefs to join Marquez Valdes-Scantling for charity softball game Friday
Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Patrick Mahomes, Kadarius Toney and Justin Reid are all expected to be in attendance. Friday afternoon, June 9 — the last scheduled practice of organized team activities (OTAs) — won't mark the end of the Kansas City Chiefs' workouts for the day. More than 30 active members of the Chiefs' roster will move from Arrowhead Stadium to the Kansas City Monarch...2023See more articles City Monarchs
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• Cub Tracks’ the wait and see game
Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. As always, ‘we await developments.’ Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. I hope you enjoy your...2022Check it out Cub Tracks
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta selects Chipper Jones with No. 1 overall pick
Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1952 - The Reds purchased veteran outfielder Willard Marshall from the Boston Braves. 1975 - The Braves draft second baseman Glenn Hubbard in the 20th round of the MLB Draft. 1986 - Barry Bonds hits his first career home run off of Craig McMurtry in a 12-3 Pirates win over the Braves. Bonds will finish with fo...2023Visit the page Chipper Jones
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• The Negro League mode in ‘MLB The Show 23’ is the greatest historical mode in sports game history
This absolutely rules. Sports games deservedly suffer the same criticism year-to-year. Often changes are only minor, it can feel like a $60 roster update, and development teams rarely have the time needed to actually overhaul the game. Some of these charges can be leveled at MLB The Show 23, but not when it comes to the addition of its Negro League mode. Never has a game so lovingly added a histo...2023Click for news about Negro League
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• Matt Adams Signs With American Association’s Kansas City Monarchs
The Kansas City Monarchs of the independent American Association announced yesterday they’ve signed first baseman Matt Adams. “We are very excited to have Matt as a part of our ball club for the 2022 season,” Monarchs manager Joe Calfapietra said as part of the team’s press release. “His ability, experience and presence is going to be extremely…...2022See more Matt Adams
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• Sports of The Times: In Kansas City, Daring Style Spans Years
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• Oswaldo Arcia Signs With American Association’s Cleburne Railroaders
A pair of former major leaguers recently signed with teams in the American Association, according to the league’s transactions log. Outfielder Oswaldo Arcia has signed with the Cleburne Railroaders, while infielder Darnell Sweeney returned to the Kansas City Monarchs. Arcia, the older brother of Braves utilityman Orlando Arcia, appeared in the big leagues between 2013-16. Included among Base...2022See more City Monarchs
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• It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs
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• A Cubs Fan's Tribute to the Legendary Ernie Banks
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• Ten Royals minor leaguers become eligible for free agencyJorge Bonifacio is raking, with four multi-hit games this week. | Minda Haas Kuhlmann Juan Carlos Negret and Jorge Bonifacio are among the minor league free agnets Ten Royals became minor league free agents this week, including former Royals outfielder Jorge Bonifacio. Minor leaguers can become eligible for free agency if they are not added to a 40-man roster after six full minor league se...2023Check it out Jorge Bonifacio buzz -
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