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Originally Posted by Archie F. Swin
Poll forthcoming....
I was born in Topeka but my family moved to southwest Oklahoma when I was 6 years old. Had I never returned to Kansas/Missouri, Its doubtful I would be a Royals (or Chiefs) fan. Neither one of my parents were fans of KC sports teams. In the late summer of 1985 my father enrolled me in Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, MO. At the time, I was 13 years old and had braces on my teeth and had to be taken to KC for orthodontics work. From Lexington we had to take I 70 into town. One of my favorite things to see on the trip was the Truman Sports Complex. It made quite an impression on me as a young man from a small town in Oklahoma. I was inspired by the size and design of the stadium and the way it opened up to the freeway.
Those trips alone were enough to make me want to support the teams that called those stadiums home. I was not a major league baseball fan at the time, so I didn't know that '85 would be a big year for the Royals. I do remember one night my father picked me up from campus ad we drove into town and as we passed the Royals stadium and he said that the World Series was being played there. Looking back, I can safely assume it was a Saturday game (Game 1 or Game 6). What's really strange is, even though many of my fellow cadets were from KC and we had a TV in the barracks, I have no recollection of seeing a WS game on TV.
Anywho, because of a year at a Missouri military school and the need for orthodontia, I'm a Royals fan.
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