Kansas City Royals Milestones

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How the Kansas City Royals history timeline game works

The Royals deck is a set of franchise moments, from expansion and ballpark openings to pennants and famous games, each with a short line under its title. The order you're after is the year each one happened. You start with one card on the timeline showing its year. For each new card, pick a gap. A good pick reveals the year, while a bad one moves the card to its true spot and costs one of your three lives.

Kansas City built a contender fast after expansion, then went through long lean stretches before a later revival. One franchise icon's career runs through a big chunk of the deck, from milestones on the field to honors after it, and those cards are easy to put out of order. The losing seasons look alike too, so the description is your best guide to which era a bad year belongs to.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Joined the AL as an expansion team Kansas City returned to the majors after the Athletics left for Oakland
First winning season In just their third year, the club finished above .500
Royals Stadium opened A fountain-adorned ballpark later named for Ewing Kauffman debuted
Whitey Herzog hired as manager The new skipper began a run of division titles
Won first AL West title George Brett's batting title fueled the first division crown
Won 102 games and the AL West A franchise-best record ended in a heartbreaking ALCS loss to New York
Won a third straight AL West The club again fell to the Yankees in the ALCS
Won first AL pennant Brett flirted with .400 and the team finally beat the Yankees
The Pine Tar Game Brett's home run was nullified for an illegal bat, then reinstated
Won the AL West A young pitching staff took the division before an ALCS sweep
Won the World Series over the Cardinals Saberhagen's MVP capped a comeback from a 3-1 Series deficit
Bo Jackson debuted The Heisman winner chose baseball over the NFL
Bret Saberhagen won a second Cy Young A 23-win season earned another award
George Brett collected his 3,000th hit The franchise icon reached the milestone in one of his final seasons
George Brett played his final season The Hall of Fame third baseman retired after 21 years
Bob Hamelin won Rookie of the Year A slugging designated hitter took the honor in a strike-shortened season
George Brett inducted into the Hall of Fame The third baseman entered Cooperstown in near-unanimous fashion
Tony Pena named Manager of the Year An unexpected winning season earned the honor
Lost 104 games The team lost over 100 games in a season for the first time
First winning season in a decade James Shields anchored the club's first winning record since 2003
Won the AL pennant A wild wild-card comeback launched a run to Game 7 of the World Series
Won the World Series over the Mets A late Game 5 rally ended a 30-year title drought
Bobby Witt Jr. debuted The heralded prospect reached the majors
Lost 106 games The club endured one of its worst seasons ever
Returned to the playoffs behind Bobby Witt Jr. The shortstop's MVP-caliber year ended a nine-year postseason drought