The " Royals " name may also have been selected as a respectful recognition of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues and a nod to the Kansas City Blues franchises of the Western League and American Association.

The Royals started in 1969 and are the only major league KC team that has neither moved nor changed its name.

He entirely concurred in the disbandment of the New Model Army, and only the regiment of which he was colonel, given the name Coldstream ( Guards ) after his death survives unamalgamated to this day, as such one of the oldest military formations in the world, becoming the last standalone representative of the New Model Army when the Blues and Royals merged in 1969.

The name is based on the Royals ' ability to become intangible

The Royals name continued to fit in Cincinnati, often known as the " Queen City ".

Originally the Royal Sons Quintet, the group began recording for Apollo Records in the early 1950s, changing its name to the Royals after abandoning gospel for secular music.

A baseball pitcher bearing his name is currently in the Kansas City Royals system.

The stadium's name was changed in 1993 to honor Royals founder Ewing Kauffman just months before his death.

However, the name change proved to be unpopular with some fans, and after three seasons the team name was changed back to the Royals in 2002.

Following the 2010 season, the then Omaha Royals began the process of changing their name.

The final game for the Royals in the stadium, and under the Royals name, was played on September 2, 2010, with the Royals defeating the Round Rock Express.

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* The Royals, original name of The Midnighters

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* Riverpoint Royals, a former team of the New England Collegiate Baseball League which used Rhode Island Reds as its original name

The name was possibly derived from the word 太尊, Pinyin: Tàizūn, meaning Royals, because this star is marking itself and stand alone in Royals asterism, Purple Forbidden enclosure ( see Chinese constellation ).

In 1973, under manager Jack McKeon, the Royals adopted their iconic " powder blue " road uniforms and moved from Municipal Stadium to the brand-new Royals Stadium ( now known as Kauffman Stadium ).

Manager Whitey Herzog replaced McKeon in 1975, and the Royals quickly became the dominant franchise in the American League's Western Division, winning three straight division championships from 1976 to 1978.

The Royals returned to the post-season in 1981, losing to the Oakland Athletics in a unique divisional series resulting from the split-season caused by the 1981 Major League Baseball strike.

The Commissioner's Trophy ( MLB ) | Commissioner's Trophy from the 1985 World Series at Kauffman Stadium | Royals Stadium.

The Royals were left without a caliber closing pitcher when Dan Quisenberry, the team's All-Star ace closer for much of the 1980s, was dropped from the club in.

Though the team dropped out of contention from 1990 to 1992, the Royals still could generally be counted on to post winning records through the strike-shortened 1994 season.

The Royals did, however, see promising seasons from two rookies, center fielder David DeJesus and starting pitcher Zack Greinke.

Through 13 games in 2008, the Royals were 8 – 5 and in first place in the AL Central, a vast improvement over their start from the previous season.

The Royals also set a dubious franchise record during the season, allowing 42 runs in a three day span from July 25 to July 27.

The Royals took two out of three from the Cardinals in 2010 behind victories from starting pitchers Zack Greinke and Bruce Chen, but followed with only two wins in six games in 2011 and in 2012.

In recent years the rivalry with Minnesota has become more prominent, with the Twins ' consistent standings atop the division, as well as the relatively short drive between the two clubs in which many fans from Minnesota make the trip and heavily populate Royals home games versus the Twins.

The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).

The Yankees won the division by two and a half games over the Red Sox and Orioles, and came from behind in the top of the 9th inning in the fifth and final game of the American League Championship Series to beat the Kansas City Royals for the pennant.

He graduated from El Segundo High School in 1971 and was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the second round ( 29th overall ) of the baseball draft.

Brett won the starting third base job in, but struggled at the plate until he asked for help from Charlie Lau, the Royals ' batting coach.

Also in 2003, José Lima pitched for the Bears at the beginning of the season ; after the Kansas City Royals signed him away from Newark, Lima won his first seven decisions for the Royals.

Despite press reports of interest from Arsenal, and the offer of a player-manager role by Southend United, Robson left Fulham in 1967 and accepted a three-year deal with Canada's Vancouver Royals.

On October 15, 1968, Wilhelm was chosen in the 1968 expansion draft by the Kansas City Royals from the White Sox as the 49th pick.

His final MLB game was on May 29, 1991, and he was released from the Royals on June 9, 1991, ending his MLB career.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League.

However, the Royals lost to the New York Yankees in three straight American League Championship Series encounters.

The Royals were then swept by the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series.

With the Royals down three-games-to-one in the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Royals eventually rallied to win the series 4 – 3.

However, by the All-Star break, the Royals were again in losing territory, with their record buoyed only by a 13 – 5 record in interleague play, the best in the American League.

The Royals last had a. 500 record at 22-22, and by the All-Star break, the Royals had a record of 37-54, the worst in the American League.

Previously, the Twins had narrowly beat out the Royals for the 1987 American League West pennant, in which the Twins later took the World Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

They entered the American League along with the Kansas City Royals as part of a hasty round of expansion triggered by the Kansas City Athletics ' move to Oakland.

Manager Joe Schultz actually thought they could finish third in the newly formed, six-team American League West even though they had been badly outdrafted by the Royals.

The Kansas City Royals of the American League's Central Division were asked first, but they decided not to move over to the National League's Central Division.

In 1969, the American League expanded when the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots, were admitted to the league prompting the expansion of the post-season for the first time since the creation of the World Series.

* Burlington Royals, an American minor league baseball team

The next day, with the American League Championship Series with the Royals beginning, Jackson hit a home run off the Royals ' top reliever at the time, Al Hrabosky, the flamboyant " Mad Hungarian.

* Gil Meche, American, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals

That year, the Royals won the first of three straight American League West Division titles, beginning a great rivalry with the New York Yankees — whom they faced in the American League Championship Series each of those three years.