Sports Of The Times: In Kansas City, Daring Style Spans Years

By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, New York Times: Baseball
Tue, 10/21/2014 - 5:56pm

Almost 70 years after Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, the upstart Royals are using the same formula that made Robinson and his Negro leagues team, the Kansas City Monarchs, so compelling.

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