On October 28, 1954, major league owners voted against the sale of the Philadelphia Athletics to a hometown syndicate. A week later, the Mack family would sell controlling interest for the team to Arnold Johnson, who would then move the A’s to Kansas City.
At that time Kansas City was the home of a Yankee farm team, a tradition which would continue for much of the A’s tenure there.
Oh man. Funny and painfully accurate.