Note: This column has been updated with the new video from MLB about the Royals being back in the World Series. Check it out at the end of this column!
You may have heard this somewhere, but it’s been 29 years since the Kansas City Royals won the 1985 World Series and, ironically, that was the last year they made the playoffs.
For some reason in 2014 it has all come together at the right time for the Royals. The 2014 World Series starts tonight in Kansas City.
I am a native Missourian (I don’t know how many generations I am because we don’t make a big deal out of it). I root for the professional teams on the west side of the state: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals.
In 1985, I was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, just about 65 miles away from Royals Stadium, on Sunday, October 27, when the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-0 to win game seven of the World Series. I still have game seven on a VHS tape – but I no longer have a VCR.
Here’s what the Kansas City Star looked like on Monday, October 28, 1985:
The Western Word 