Is Kansas City a good baseball town?

The Kansas City Royals are tied with the San Francisco Giants 1-1 in the Major Baseball League (MBL) finals, still called the World Series by most who have not noticed that the American and National Leagues merged 15 years ago.

George Brett  1990 by SW
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We're hearing ad nauseam that Kansas City is a good, maybe great, baseball town.  The Royals are an expansion team created in 1969.   The Royals were preceded by the Athletics, on their way from Philadelphia to Oakland, who played in Kansas City from 1955 through 1967; best finish: 1966 74-86 7th of 10.  Before 1955 there was minor league ball: Monarchs of the Negro leagues and Blues, the top Yankee affiliate.

The Royals have won one championship: 1985.  Since then through 2013 here are the Royals averages and rank among the 30 current MBL teams, several of which were added after 1969:

regular season rank in division: 4 (29) ahead of Pittsburgh 4.2
wins: 73 (30) last
attendance: 1,741,858 (26) ahead of both Florida teams, Pittsburgh and Montreal/Washington.

Data (from the Lahman database) sorted by attendance:

Franchise	Team	Rank	Wins	Attendance
LAD	LAN	2.61	83	3,193,218
COL	COL	3.81	75	2,999,984
NYY	NYA	2.25	90	2,996,145
STL	SLN	2.50	85	2,959,086
BAL	BAL	3.96	75	2,618,440
ANA	ANA	2.93	82	2,611,416
BOS	BOS	2.61	87	2,601,394
CHC	CHN	3.89	76	2,589,120
ARI	ARI	2.75	81	2,526,410
TOR	TOR	3.14	81	2,523,975
NYM	NYN	3.14	81	2,519,524
SFG	SFN	2.57	84	2,500,752
ATL	ATL	2.32	87	2,449,924
PHI	PHI	3.04	80	2,431,756
TEX	TEX	2.82	81	2,419,348
SEA	SEA	3.68	77	2,220,133
HOU	HOU	3.07	79	2,184,081
CLE	CLE	3.25	80	2,101,841
CIN	CIN	3.11	80	2,098,691
SDP	SDN	3.54	77	2,075,553
MIL	MIL	3.93	77	2,047,661
MIN	MIN	3.21	78	2,015,759
DET	DET	3.36	76	2,009,110
CHW	CHA	2.71	81	1,978,765
OAK	OAK	2.39	85	1,834,916
KCR	KCA	3.96	72	1,741,858
PIT	PIT	4.21	74	1,680,263
FLA	FLO	3.86	75	1,630,363
WSN	MON	3.64	77	1,541,527
TBD	TBA	3.81	75	1,515,268