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The
Kansas City Royals
are a
Major League Baseball
team based in
Kansas City, Missouri
. They began play in 1969. The Royals won a
World Series
title in 1985. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in
Kauffman Stadium
. They are
owned
by John Sherman, managed by Matt Quatraro, and their General Manager is J.J. Picollo .
The old
minor league baseball
team in Kansas City had been called the Blues. There was also a famous
Negro league baseball
team called the
Kansas City Monarchs
. The Royals name and their team color blue are at least partly in honor of those older teams. The Kansas City Royals first played in the World Series where they lost to the
Philadelphia Phillies
. In 1985, they won their first championship, beating the
St. Louis Cardinals
in seven. The Royals returned to the World Series in 2014 but lost to the
San Francisco Giants
. However, they defeated the
New York Mets
4 games to 1 in 2015 to win their second championship.