From 1955 to 1967, the Athletics played 13 seasons in Kansas City between the team's time in Philadelphia and Oakland. For the first half of this period, the team was essentially treated as a farm team of the New York Yankees, a story told very well by Jeff Katz in The Kansas City A’s & the Wrong Half of the Yankees.

Due in large part to Arnold Johnson’s willingness to collude with the Yankees and trade a...

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