The Kansas City Blues were a minor league baseball team located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. The team was one of the eight founding members of the American Association.
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Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees, primari
Kansas City Blues (American Association)
…have a team as great as the 1939 squad again, but the team was a launching pad for future major league players like Johnny Lindell and in later years, Mickey Mantle. And by the 1950s it was over for the Blues altogether, as the franchise ceased once the A's moved from Philadelphia to Kansas City. Hall of Fame alumni…
Mantle in 1957
Mantle's boyhood home in Commerce, Oklahoma
Mantle as a 19-year-old rookie in 1951
Bowman's Mantle trading card, 1954