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Title
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Innings Ago: Recollections by Kansas City Ballplayers of Their Days in the Game
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book