We stood in a light rain Wednesday, on the corner of 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue, just east of downtown Kansas City, and a lot of things went through my mind.
I thought of my dad, who in 1967 took our family to this corner, back when a ballpark stood there. Municipal Stadium opened in 1923 and was demolished in 1976 and in between was the home of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, the Kansas City Athletics of the American League, the Kansas City Chiefs of the old AFL and Kansas City Royals of the American League.