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Kansas City vs. Oakland SPORT AND SOCIETY Series Editors Aram Goudsouzian Jaime Schultz Founding Editors Benjamin G. Rader Randy Roberts A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. KANSAS CITY VS. OAKLAND THE BIT TER SPORTS RIVALRY THAT DEFINED AN ERA MATTHEW C. EHRLICH © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ehrlich, Matthew C., 1962– author. Title: Kansas City vs. Oakland : the bitter sports rivalry that defined an era / Matthew C. Ehrlich. Other titles: Kansas City versus Oakland Description: [Urbana] : University of Illinois Press, [2019] | Series: Sport and society | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019000620| ISBN 9780252042652 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780252084492 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Kansas City Chiefs (Football team)—History—20th century. | Oakland Raiders (Football team)—History—20th century. | Kansas City Royals (Baseball team)—History—20th century. | Oakland Athletics (Baseball team)— History—20th century. | Sports rivalries—United States—History—20th century. | Sports—Social aspects—United States. Classification: LCC GV956.K35 E47 2019 | DDC 796.04/40973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov /2019000620 Ebook ISBN 978-0-252-05150-0 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Striving for the Big Leagues 21 2 Chiefs vs. Raiders, Part I 48 3 A’s vs. Royals, Part I 72 4 Chiefs vs. Raiders, Part II 93 5 A’s vs. Royals, Part II 118 6 “Triumph and Tragedy” 139 Conclusion 161 Notes 181 Index 223 Acknowledgments THANKS TO THE STAFFS of the following research facilities: the His- tory, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library and the Rare Book and Manu- script Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library; the Oakland His- tory Room, Oakland Public Library; the Newspapers and Microforms Library and Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley; the Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York; the Milstein Microform Read- ing Room, New York Public Library; and the Paley Center for Media, New York. Daniel Nasset steadfastly supported this book from the start, and I thank him and the rest of the staff at the University of Illinois Press, including Marika Christofides, Tad Ringo, and Kevin Cunningham. Thanks as well to Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz for accepting the book for the press’s Sport and Society series. Jerald Podair, Victoria Johnson, Travis Vogan, and an anonymous reader provided valuable feedback. Brittany Bradley at the Oakland Museum of California and Matthew Lutts at the Associated Press assisted with images. Dennis McClendon at Chicago CartoGraphics prepared the maps. Walt Evans copyedited the final manuscript. My late father, George Ehrlich, was an urban historian in his own right, and I am pleased to cite his work here. My late mother, Mila Jean Smith Ehrlich, was a lifelong Kansas Citian and proud of her hometown. This book is dedicated to her memory. Kansas City vs. Oakland
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