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 Image: Title: Date: Description:
1. City Window: Juice on Skates? City Window: Juice on Skates? April 1979
2. Field of Dreams Field of Dreams August//1994 Along with Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum and HNTB Corporation, one of three most experienced sports architecture firms.
3. Major League City: Major League Baseball's Inauspicious Start in K. C. Major League City: Major League Baseball's Inauspicious Start in K. C. May 2000 Article about "the Kansas City Unions, Kansas City's first professional sports team," one of the "34 so-called major league baseball franchises in America" in the 1880s besides the National League. Organized...
4. Oldest Rivalry West of the Mississippi Oldest Rivalry West of the Mississippi Fall//1991 Article about "the oldest collegiate football rivalry west of the Mississippi," between the Universities of Missouri and Kansas, celebrating the rivalry's centennial, starting in 1891 with Missouri leading...
5. Ernie Quigley: An Official for All Seasons Ernie Quigley: An Official for All Seasons Winter 2010-2011 Article about Ernest C. Quigley from St. Mary's, Kansas, who is little-known today but had a 40-year career in officiating baseball, basketball, and football games. From 1913 to 1938, Quigley was a major...
6. Field of Dreams Field of Dreams August//1994 Article about Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, one of the world's most experienced sports architectural firms.
7. Home Field Advantage Home Field Advantage March 2002 Article about local architecture firms and the worldwide sports stadiums for which they are responsible. Includes designs and photographs of stadiums and arenas.
8. Soccer. ..the Latest Kick Soccer. ..the Latest Kick October//1981 Article about rising popularity of both amateur soccer for kids and the professional Kansas City Comets team.
9. Kansas City: Bound to Be Up-to-Date Kansas City: Bound to Be Up-to-Date July 1972 Article about the "rebuilding on a grand scale" of Greater Kansas City with "a variety of projects on tap: [s]tadiums, convention centers, a sports arena, a new airport, inner-city residential communities,...
10. Arrowhead Stadium: Birth of a New Generation of Football Facilities Arrowhead Stadium: Birth of a New Generation of Football Facilities August 1972 Article about the architectural significance of the new, cutting-edge, football stadium.
11. Fabulous Career of Jackson County Horsewoman Featured at K. C. Museum Fabulous Career of Jackson County Horsewoman Featured at K. C. Museum December//1978 Article about the career of Loula Long Combs, "in the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame as the only woman and one of two persons cited for equine sports," Description of the exhibition at the Kansas City...
12. Women Tackle Men's Sports Women Tackle Men's Sports April-May//1975 Article about the changing attitudes toward and increasing play by women in traditionally "men's" sports like rugby, football, and the like.
13. Scorecard: Checkmate for Charlie Scorecard: Checkmate for Charlie January/27/1964 Article about the continuing search for other stadiums for the Kansas City Athletics (also known as the Kansas City A's) baseball team by owner Charles Finley.
14. Oh, Give Me a Home Oh, Give Me a Home January/6/1964 Article about the continuing search for other stadiums for the Kansas City Athletics (also known as the Kansas City A's) baseball team by owner Charles Finley, to replace Municipal Stadium.
15. One City's "Ordeal by Strike": Kansas City, Mo. One City's "Ordeal by Strike": Kansas City, Mo. September/14/1970 Article about the costs to the local economy for various parties of recent labor strikes (involving labor unions clashing with the Kansas City Builders Association) and related delays, suspensions or removal...
16. May the Best Businessmen Survive May the Best Businessmen Survive November//1982 Article about the fierce competition for sports revenues between the Kings basketball team and the Comets soccer team.
17. Beyond the Backboard: A Balance Sheet Beyond the Backboard: A Balance Sheet May//1980 Article about the financing of the Kansas City Kings professional basketball team to avoid unnecessary taxes.
18. The New Carlisle of the West: Haskell Institute and Big-Time Sports, 1920-1932 The New Carlisle of the West: Haskell Institute and Big-Time Sports, 1920-1932 Autumn//1994 Article about the Haskell Institute, a college for American Indians, and its successful sports program in the 1920s, in Lawrence, Kansas.
19. The Success That Was Born in a Barn: There's Gold in Them 'Thar Blues The Success That Was Born in a Barn: There's Gold in Them 'Thar Blues February//1969 Article about the hockey team.
20. Tennis out of the Ice Age Tennis out of the Ice Age May//1977 Article about the incongruous beginnings of the World Championship tennis league in the city, with the first court set up on a sheet of ice inside the American Royal Arena.