A state of Cardinals’ fans and Royals’ fans
Jun 20th, 2007 by gelski
You may have read Sam Mellinger’s story in Wednesday’s Kansas City Star about the St. Louis Cardinals having a much larger fan base than the Kansas City Royals throughout much of the state of Missouri. It was the story with the cool drawing of a flock of Cardinals attacking Slugger-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r.
Here are my opinions on baseball fans where I’ve lived in the state of Missouri:
Salisbury, Mo. — Born in 1962, I started following the Cardinals seriously in the early 1970s, back when they were still pretty good and had created a solid fan base thanks to two World Series crowns in the 1960s. Salisbury, with a population of a little more than 1,700, is about a two-hour drive east of Kansas City and nearly a three-hour drive west of St. Louis. My sister, born in 1968, named her cat George Brat. She followed the Royals during their thrilling playoff series with the New York Yankees in the late 1970s and 1980. So did a lot of other Salisburians about her age.
Columbia, Mo. — The University of Missouri campus was filled with red, along with black and gold, when the Cardinals won it all in 1982. Overall, I’d say the Cardinals had a slight edge of Cardinals’ fans over Royals’ fans when I lived there (1981-85), but it was close. The students from Kansas City certainly loved their Royals.
Carthage, Mo. — The headline in The Carthage Press read, “Missouri hits a grand slam!” the day after St. Louis and Kansas City both qualified for the playoffs in 1985. The fans seemed split evenly among the two teams even though Carthage was about a 2-hour drive from Kansas City and about a 4-hour drive from St. Louis.
St. Joseph, Mo. — The ratio of Royals’ fans to Cardinals’ fans was about 3:1 in the Royals’ favor in this town about an hour drive north of Kansas City. The Cardinal fans I met there were deep-rooted in their allegiance. Many had family histories of following the Cardinals way before 1969, the year the Kansas City Royals came into existence.
In summary, true Cardinals’ fans may criticize their team, but their allegiance is never in question. The true Royals fans are those 10,000 souls who show up at Kauffman Stadium for a Monday night game in September. I’ll count Slugger-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r among them.
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