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Improved Royals could surprise in 2009

By Peter Gammons

Sunday, March 29, 2009

We all know that Kansas City is a small market. Fine. But we also know what it was like before any player made $3 million per year, when in the George Brett era -- from 1975 through 1989 -- the Royals averaged 89 wins a season, the ballpark was a model of civility, and their fan base was loyally rooted in small havens across Missouri and Kansas, from Columbia to Lawrence and dots along I-70, baseball's original road west of the Mississippi. By the time of the 1994 strike, the franchise was alr ...

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