(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1969 1973 1985 2003 2015 Kansas City Royals Team Formation When the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, Kansas City was left without major league baseball or, for the first time since 1883, professional baseball at all. An enraged Senator Stuart Symington threatened to introduce legislation removing baseball’s antitrust exemption unless …