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Title: Municipal Stadium
Description: View looking southwest from behind the outfield wall of Municipal Stadium, located at 22nd and Brooklyn, documenting stadium renovations.
Date: 1954-11-16
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Showing How Work Is Progressing on the New Blue Baseball Park
Description: Photo of Municipal Stadium, under construction in 1923 at 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue. Built as Muehlebach Field for the Kansas City Blues minor league baseball team and later renamed Ruppert Stadium, Blues Stadium, and then Municipal Stadium before being razed.
Date: 1923-04-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ballpark Area's Future May Lie In Historic Past
Description: Article about the efforts being made in the Monarch Manor subdivision on the former site of old Municipal Stadium to attract home buyers. "Nearly $300,000 worth of trees, landscaping and a paved pavilion will outline where the grandstand once stood."
Date: 2012-06-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Night the Beatles Bombed
Description: Detailed description of the September 1964 Beatles concert in Kansas City. The author describes the political undertones of the event, precipitated by the involvement of Charley (Charlie) Finley as promoter.
Date: 2004-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Blues Baseball Game
Description: View of spectators at what is presumed to be a Kansas City Blues game at Blues Stadium (later named Municipal Stadium).
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Innings Ago: Recollections by Kansas City Ballplayers of Their Days in the Game
Description: Book with photos and descriptions of several baseball players starting out or playing professionally in Kansas City for the local teams preceding the Kansas City Royals. Chapters on Buck O'Neil, Hank Bauer, Willard Brown (the first black to hit a home run in the American League), and others with a brief history describing the Kansas City Unions (1884), the Kansas City Cowboys (1886-1900), the Kansas City Blues (1901-1955), the Kansas City Packers (1914-1915), the Kansas City Monarchs (also ending in 1955), and the Kansas City Athletics (1955-1967), etc.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Blues Parade
Description: View of cars lined up outside Municipal Stadium before a South Central Business Association parade honoring the Kansas City Blues.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Blues Parade
Description: Members of Kansas City Blues posed near cars lined up outside of Municipal Stadium for South Central Business Association parade honoring the baseball team.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Early Years of the Kansas City Royals
Description: Chapter of book detailing the early years of the Kansas City Royals. Describes the Royals strategy in the 1968 expansion draft (to draft the best available talent rather than try to fill specific roster slots), early Royals personnel, and the Royals Baseball Academy.
Date: 1905-06-26
Object Type: Book

Title: Municipal Stadium
Description: Panoramic view of Municipal Stadium located at 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue. View shows the seats and playing field as well as areas to either side. No print image, negative and digital only.
Date: 1955-04
Object Type: Negative

Title: 1936 Kansas City Blues Team
Description: Group portrait of the 1936 Kansas City Blues baseball team inside Muehlebach Field (later renamed Blues/Municipal Stadium). The team is posed in front of an oversized baseball display that reads "George Trautman Official League". Autograph on photo reads "To my pal N. Emerson Paton in appreciation, Phil Small, May 4, 1936, 'Parkview Pharmacy'".
Date: 1936-05-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Stadium
Description: Aerial view of stadium. Described as "Opening Day, K.C. Athletics vs Detroit...Attendance 32,834."
Date: 1955-04-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Stadium
Description: View of southeast corner of Municipal Stadium, located at 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue, on a game day, showing box office and arriving spectators.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

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