OXON HILL, Md. — The story is from 26 years ago, before John Schuerholz built the Atlanta Braves into a model of staggering consistency, before he bequeathed a protege to resuscitate baseball in Kansas City, before he became the latest executive voted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, an unanimous choice by Today’s Game Era committee on Sunday evening.
The story is from 1990. Schuerholz’s last year as the Royals general manager. Just days before he bolted for Atlanta.
Schuerholz had been the general manager in Kansas City since 1981. He’d been with the team since 1969.