OVERLAND PARK, KS – Members of the Creative Hands group at Tallgrass Creek in Overland Park have donated more than a dozen hand-crafted red scarves to women living with cardiac disease through WomenHeart of Kansas City, a local support network that is part of the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.

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The long strange journey of the Athletics before they came to Oakland saw one failed team turn into another.  A thirteen year experiment beginning in 1955 brought the first season of the Kansas City Athletics.  The former Philadelphia team, it’s reverential powerhouse days behind it, was broke and was purchased and moved by industrialist Arnold Johnson. 

Johnson is not remembered very favorably.  That is normal for owners who move teams, but what is not normal is that he isn’t remembered fondly in the city where he brought a team either.  His concern is said to have been more for profits than for the people of Kansas City.  The team brought with it much excitement and the A’s enjoyed record attendance in their first year.  Unfortunately they never saw anywhere near those kinds of numbers again. Read the full story