KC’S ALL-TIME TEAMS
BASEBALL
1885: Kansas City Cowboys, Western League
1886: No team
1887-88: Kansas City Cowboys, Western Association
1888-89: Kansas City Cowboys, American Association (third major league)
1890-99: Kansas City Blues, Western League
1900: No team
1901: Kansas City Blues, Western League
1902: Kansas City Cowboys, independent American Association; Kansas City Blue Stockings, Western League
1903: Kansas City Cowboys, American Association
1904-54: Kansas City Blues, American Association
1920-30: Kansas City Monarchs, Negro National League; 1931-36, independent, barnstorming; 1937-60, Negro American League.
1955-67: Kansas City Athletics, American League
1968: No team
1969 to present: Kansas City Royals, American League
2003-present: Kansas City T-Bones, independent Northern League
BASKETBALL
1949: Kansas City Hi-Spots, National Professional Basketball League
1957-58: Kansas City Kaycees, National Industrial Basketball League (AAU)
1960-61: Kansas City Steers, American Basketball League
1972-73 to 1974-75: Kansas City-Omaha Kings, National Basketball Association
1975-76 to 1984-85: Kansas City Kings, NBA
1985-86: Kansas City Sizzlers, Continental Basketball Association
2000-2002: Kansas City Knights, American Basketball Association
2003-present: Kansas City Knights, American Basketball Association
FOOTBALL
1925-26: Kansas City Cowboys, National Football League
1963-present: Kansas City Chiefs, NFL (1963-69, American Football League)
HOCKEY
1927-33: Kansas City Pla-Mors, American Hockey Association
1933-40: Kansas City Greyhounds, AHA
1940-42: Kansas City Americans, AHA
1945-49: Kansas City Pla-Mors, U.S. Hockey League
1949-50: Kansas City Mohawks, USHL
1950-51: Kansas City Royals, USHL
1967-68: Kansas City Blues, Central Professional Hockey League
1968-72: Kansas City Blues, Central Hockey League
1974-1977: Kansas City Scouts, National Hockey League
1977-79: Kansas City Red Wings, Central Hockey League
1990-2001: Kansas City Blades, International Hockey League
2004-2005: Kansas City Outlaws, United Hockey League
1981-91: Kansas City Comets, Major Indoor Soccer League
1991-2001: Kansas City Attack, National Pro Soccer League
2001-present: Kansas City Comets (the Attack renamed), Major Indoor Soccer League
SOCCER, Outdoor
1968-70: Kansas City Spurs, North American Soccer League
1996-present: Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer
TEAM TENNIS
1993-present: Kansas City Explorers, World TeamTennis
Editor’s note: This list of Kansas City sports teams in organized leagues was compiled by Bill Richardson of The Star’s Sports Department. Sources included sports record books and Kansas City Star library files. The basketball and hockey seasons are mainly listed with two years for each season, such as Kansas City Mohawks hockey team which played only one season, the fall of 1949 into the winter of 1950. The Kansas City Steers in basketball played the 1960-61 season, then folded along with the league on the final day of 1961.
This story was originally published September 18, 2005 at 3:01 AM with the headline "KC’S ALL-TIME TEAMS."