Comments on: A New Old Idea For the Kansas City Royals

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By: Bip

Bip — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:09:41 +0000

This was really interesting, and written better than many articles written by paid fangraphs writers.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:26:21 +0000

Great write-up. Thanks for sharing it

By: Jamesian

Jamesian — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:22:24 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Mr. McKeon. A great idea it was and we’ll happily give you the credit.

By: Bill McKeon

Bill McKeon — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:07:50 +0000

The Academy was my idea that I sold to Mr. Ewing Kaufman ( Owner Kansas City Royals ) in 1969 at our first organizational meeting in Kansas City at the Continental Hotel . I suggested to Mr. Kaufman that he purchase a Junior College in Arizona or Florida and conduct a baseball school year round with major league players being the instructors. This was during the Viet Nam War and Teachers were exempt from service duty where major leaguers were missing ( 2 ) weeks of Army Resrve or Natonal Gauard Training. The Academy players would attend college in the morning and baseball in the afternoon and the major leaguers would instruct during the winter months. I conducted the first try-outs for this Academy in Miami and Jacksonville Florida and later in Toronto, Canada. Yes, the Academy was expensive because of all the frills steak for breakfast etc., weight programs and scouts charging expensives to the Academy. Thats one of the major reasons it was terminated

By: Jamesian

Jamesian — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:37:40 +0000

First of all, you along with everyone else confuse the concept with getting more black players in baseball. That would probably be the end result but that is not the idea. The idea is to take great athletes and make them baseball players — whatever the race. Obviously, most of them would probably be black but that is irrelevant.

This is about giving yourself an advantage over your competition by accessing the greatest athletes in America and converting them to baseball players. The concept is already proven. Most people, like yourself, can’t accept that this idea would work despite the successes which is why it will never be tried again.

As for black players playing basketball, who really cares? Baseball is appropriately represented racially according to demographics with black players. It is clearly missing out on top athletes but it doesn’t have a shortage of talent. By finding a way to attract minority talent, a team could give itself a unique advantage.

The RBI program is never going to work because young athletes are not interested in baseball and they aren’t going to be ever again in the same way they were before. Baseball and basketball have a permanent advantage over baseball which is more boring than the other sports for the average fan.

In any case, the RBI program benefits all teams equally, therefore, it provides no real advantage to a particular team.