the State Historical Society of Missouri
John Brenner is the managing editor for the State Historical Society of Missouri.
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Curt Flood spent most of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing center field for them from 1958…
![Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Gert-Goebel.jpg?itok=qQF_4_in "Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]")
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…
![Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, with Charlie O., the team’s mascot. [Jackson County Historical Society Archives, photo #2017.006.188]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-03/1.%20Kansas%20City%20Athletics.jpg?itok=4oAilxt1 "Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, with Charlie O., the team’s mascot. [Jackson County Historical Society Archives, photo #2017.006.188]")
Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that…