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The KC Royals got lucky when they went on the clock in last summer’s draft and found Asa Lacy still available. They won’t rush him to the majors.
On June 27, 1973, when the KC Royals were just a few years old, Royals Stadium was brand new, and George Brett’s first big league at-bat was less than two months away, the team lost a heartbreaker in Oakland when Bert Campaneris scored from first on an infield error in the bottom of the ninth.
But that fluke ending wasn’t the night’s most interesting baseball occurrence.