Baseball Instinct – Do You Have It?

I miss the 1970s. Well, that’s not exactly true. I don’t have too many clear memories of the 1970s, so it’s not the decade that I miss. It’s the look. And more specifically the look of baseball. The double knit. The ChiSox in shorts. The A’s in all yellow. A little pill-box hat on the head of big Willie Stargell. And more specifically I miss the facial hair. Take a look at Al Hrabosky. It takes a man to grow that kind of facial hair. It takes a double shot of testosterone to do something like that. It also takes a little bit of crazy. Could be why they called him the Mad Hungarian.

I was born with blue blood. Being a child of Kansas City in the 1970s and 1980s I got to cheer George Brett at third base, Frank White at second and Willie Wilson in center field. I got to root for the Royals when they were annually in the hunt for a division title. It was easy to be a fan of the boys in blue then. But in recent years it’s been admittedly harder. But I don’t have a choice. I was born a Royals fan and will die a Royals fan. But for you, the baseball fan from Biloxi or Bremerton or Boyd, you do have a choice. And here are 9 reasons you should choose the Royals.