Municipal Stadium
Kansas City's Municipal Stadium stood at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn from 1922 until its demolition in 1976. Originally called Muehlebach Park, it was the major arena for sporting events in the city.
The stadium was home for the Kansas City Blues, the Athletics and the Negro Leagues baseball teams. Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth played exhibition baseball at Municipal, and the Kansas City Royals played their first game there.
Annual football games between the University of Kansas and University of Missouri teams drew huge crowds. In 1963 the stadium became the home of The Kansas City Chiefs. Their longest game ever, Christmas Day, 1971 was played at Municipal.
World soccer-great Pele and his Brazilian team, The Santos, played the KC Spurs at Municipal Stadium in 1968.
Non-sporting events also took place there: The Beatles did a concert in 1964.
After the Stadium was replaced by the Harry S Truman sports complex east of the city, and the vacant land became a community garden, there was no indication that the Municipal Stadium ever existed.
But in the year 2000, the Historical Society of New Santa Fe applied for a grant from the Kansas City 150th Anniversary Legacy Fund, requesting finances to commemorate the old ballpark. That year a historical marker was designed and placed in a small park where the old ticket booth once stood. The stadium site is now the location of modern housing for low-income families; the marker and park are maintained by Kansas City Parks & Recreation.
