He was released by the Mets during spring training on April 1, 1991, and subsequently signed by the Kansas City Royals on April 25, 1991.

Kansas ' first album with Elefante, Vinyl Confessions, was released in June 1982.

The following year Kansas released Always Never the Same, which featured Larry Baird conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Somewhere to Elsewhere, released in July 2000, featured all the original members of Kansas, plus Greer, with all songs written by Livgren.

In 2002, Kansas II ( the lineup prior to the recording and release of Kansas ' first album ) released an album under the group name Proto-Kaw, featuring demos and live material recorded from 1971 to 1973.

In 2008, the Kansas website announced that four of the five current members ( Ehart, Ragsdale, Williams and Greer ) had formed a recording group called Native Window, and they released their self-titled debut album in June 2009.

However, it was not until Orleans was heard at Max's Kansas City, then produced, by Chuck Plotkin, then head of A & R for Asylum Records, that the band scored its first Billboard Hot 100 charting with " Let There Be Music "(# 55 ), taken from their third album, Let There Be Music, released in March 1975.

However, Grupp had been a one season wonder in Kansas City, and after a few inconsistent weeks, he was released, and safety David Greenwood did double duty taking over as the team's punter.

In Kansas City, Missouri on April 1, 1986, a concert was filmed which would be released later that year as the home video The Ultimate Ozzy.

Jennifer Knapp, born in Chanute, Kansas is a Grammy nominated, Dove Award-winning Christian folk rock musician whose first album Kansas released in 1998 was certified gold.

He signed with the Kansas City Royals for the 1989 season, but played only in the minor leagues before being released in June of that year, ending his 14-year career in baseball.

Apparently the Yankees ' management knew what they had done, because in the remaining two years of his career, with the Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics ( who signed him as a free agent on April 28, 1955 when the Cardinals released him ), Raschi won only 12 games while losing 16.

In 2006, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, a strongly antiabortion Republican, released some sealed patient records obtained from Planned Parenthood to the public.

These shows recorded and released under the title Live at Max's Kansas City ' 79.

He was released by Kansas City on July 5, after batting. 232 for the team.

On August 6, 2011, Graner was released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas after serving six and a half years of his 10 year sentence.

The nutrients in the organic matter will be eventually released back into the soil, so this is only a concern during the transition time frame ( 4 – 5 years for Kansas, USA ).

None of County's albums were ever released in her native country of the United States, except for three songs on the very early punk compilation, Max's Kansas City.

Arista Records released The Shooting Stars from their contract and they returned to Kansas City.

In 1999, Vagrant Records signed Kansas City, Missouri, band, The Get Up Kids, and the band's Vagrant debut, Something to Write Home About, was released in September 1999.

The original roster of artists who released music on Seed includes Cursor Miner, Ardisson, Kansas City Prophets, The Doubtful Guest, Digitonal, and Posthuman.

On September 22, 2005, during a concert at The Beaumont Club in Kansas City, Missouri, frontman Sean Danielsen stated that their new album Anxiety, would not be released due to issues with Lava Records.

Kansas, regarded as tops in the nation in its treatment of the mentally ill, spends $9 per day per patient.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

The series is set in the late 19th Century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas and features the adventures of its sheriff, Tex Tucker.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

For the majority of its first 15 years of existence the team was known as the Kansas City Wizards.

Because Livestrong Sporting Park was not ready for the beginning of the 2011 season, Sporting Kansas City played its first ten games on the road, only winning one game.

The stadium, located across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas, built a new bleacher section financed by the Wizards to increase its capacity to 10, 385.

The group derives its name from Hillcrest Road which is the road on which the Trails Stadium would have been built if the project had not fallen through and then shifted to Kansas.

Kansas City concluded a milestone off-season in 1989-1990 as its biggest commitment to free agents in the club's entire history.

Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the Town of Kansas at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers and was incorporated in its present form in 1850.

The city is well known for its contributions to the musical styles of jazz and blues as well as to cuisine, notably Kansas City-style barbecue.

In March 2012, downtown Kansas City was selected as one of America's best downtowns by Forbes magazine for its rich culture in arts, numerous fountains, upscale shopping and various local cuisine – most notably barbecue.

During the Civil War, the City of Kansas and its immediate environs were the focus of intense military activity.

Kansas City and its outlying areas are also subject to flooding, including the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Flood of 1951.

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center ( Bartle Hall ) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place ( the tallest office tower structure in Missouri ), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs ( the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri ), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, founded in 1970, offers one American contemporary opera production during its annual season consisting of either four or five productions.

Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.