This is a baseball town.
Kansas City has produced a few big league stars, notably Frank White, David Cone, and Hall of Famer Casey Stengel. However it has not exactly been a hotbed of talent for the Major League draft. Only five high school players from the Kansas City area have ever been taken in the first round of the June amateur draft:
- Rick Sutcliffe, Van Horn (Independence, MO), 21st overall, 1974 (Dodgers)
- Lee Stevens, Lawrence (Lawrence, KS), 22nd overall, 1986 (Angels)
- Damian Rolls, Schlagel (Kansas City, KS), 23rd overall, 1996 (Dodgers)
- John Mayberry Jr.