Nineteen-eighty five was a crazy year. I spent most of the year traveling the country, which meant I wasn’t going to Royals games. Kansas to Missouri to Georgia to North Carolina back to Missouri then to Kansas again and finally Colorado. Whew. One of the greatest college basketball games ever took place in April, when the Villanova Wildcats played a near perfect game to beat Patrick Ewing and the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas for the NCAA Championship. Coca Cola decided to change the formula on their classic Coke to what was called New Coke. It was a colossal failure, as the new Coke tasted like Sugar Plum Fairy Gag Juice.
Here are your 1985 Kansas City Royals
