The Living Kansas City Athletics

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Former Kansas City A's pitcher and HOF LA Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=lasord001tho

List at Post # 33 is updated

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Former Kansas City A's pitcher Dan Pfister has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...fistda01.shtml

List at Post # 33 is updated

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Former Kansas City A's pitcher Jack McMahan has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...cmahja02.shtml

List at post # 33 will be updated.

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Former Philadelphia A's AND Kansas City A's pitcher Hal Raether has passed away per Baseball Reference.com on 9/26/20

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...aethha01.shtml

List at post 33 for KC A's as well as the Philadelphia Athletics list will both be updated.

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Former Kansas City Athletics outfielder Bobby Prescott has passed away.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...rescbo01.shtml

The list at post # 33 is updated.

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Former Kansas City Athletics catcher/infielder Hal Smith has passed away.

Smith is another former World Series hero (not for the KC A's of course) when he hit a huge 3 run home run in the 7th game of the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...mithha08.shtml

The list at post #33 is updated.

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Former Kansas City Athletics pitcher Don Larsen has passed away on New Years Day, 2020 per Sportscenter on ESPN.

Larsen was most famous/known for his 1956 World Series perfect game for the Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The List at post # 33 is updated.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...arsedo01.shtml

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Former Kansas City Athletics 3rd baseman Weldon Bowlin has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...owliwe01.shtml

List at Post # 33 is updated

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Former Kansas City Athletics infielder Bob Johnson has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ohnsbo02.shtml

List at Post # 33 is updated

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Former Kansas City Athletics 1B-Outfielder Irv Noren has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...orenir01.shtml

The list at post # 33 has been updated.

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Bobby Del Greco, former Kansas City Athletics outfielder has passed away on 10-13-19 per Baseball Reference. List at Post #33 is updated.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...elgrbo01.shtml

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Of the 291 players who wore a Kansas City Athletics uniform, there are 110 living, as of 1-8-2021.

The ages are NOT accurate, since Cowtipper has left this site.

. I wont be maintaining them, if someone else wants to, feel free.

Eddie Robinson, 95

Tim Thompson, 91

Bobby Shantz, 90

Wayne Terwilliger, 90

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Johnny Groth, 89

Cloyd Boyer, 88

Bill Harrington, 88

Billy Hunter, 87

Bill Wilson, 87

Art Ditmar, 86

Hank Foiles, 86

Ray Herbert, 86

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Pete Daley, 85

Hector Lopez, 86

Joe Pignatano, 86

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Mike Baxes, 85

Dick Hall, 85

Joe Morgan, 85

Dick Tomanek, 85

Chuck Essegian, 84

Whitey Herzog, 84

Bud Daley, 83

Carl Duser, 83

Marty Kutyna, 83

Eric MacKenzie, 83

Lou Skizas, 83

Ozzie Virgil, 83

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John Briggs, 81

Rocky Colavito, 82

Bill Kern, 82

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Orlando Pena, 82

Gordie Windhorn, 82

Jim Gentile, 81

Russ Snyder, 81

Wes Stock, 81

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Bob Duliba, 81

Ted Bowsfield, 80

Ken Hamlin, 80

Jay Hankins, 80

Ralph Terry, 80

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Dave Wickersham, 80

Tom Carroll, 79

Wayne Causey, 79

Evans Killeen, 79

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Jim McManus, 79

Leo Posada, 79

Rollie Sheldon, 79

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Diego Segui, 78

Jim Small, 78

Dave Thies, 78

Billy Bryan, 77

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Jim Dickson, 77

Alex George, 77

Guido Grilli, 77

Tim Talton, 77

Jose Tartabull, 77

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Dale Willis, 77

Norm Bass, 76

Joe Azcue, 76

Jim Duckworth, 76

Jesse Hickman, 76
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Lou Klimchock, 76

Bob Meyer, 76

John O'Donoghue, 76

Jerry Walker, 76

Jack Aker, 75

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Danny Cater, 75

Ossie Chavarria, 75

Joe Nossek, 75

Roger Repoz, 75

Jose Santiago, 75

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Frank Cipriani, 74

Bill Edgerton, 74

Dick Green, 74

Ken Harrelson, 74

Allan Lewis, 74

.Nelson Mathews, 74

Tommie Reynolds, 74

Phil Roof, 74

Ken Sanders, 74

Larry Stahl, 74

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Rupe Toppin, 74

Bert Campaneris, 73

Jim Gosger, 73

Ted Kubiak, 73

Bill Landis, 73

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Fred Norman, 73

Ron Stone, 73

Ramon Webster, 73

John Wojcik, 73

.Chuck Dobson, 72

John Donaldson, 72

Lew Krausse, 72

Ken Suarez, 72

Sal Bando, 71

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Tom Harrison, 71

Tony La Russa, 71

Randy Schwartz, 71

Ron Tompkins, 71

Gil Blanco, 70
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Dave Duncan, 70

Rene Lachemann, 70

Rick Monday, 70

Jim Nash, 70

Blue Moon Odom, 70

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John Sanders, 70

Don Buschhorn, 69

Reggie Jackson, 69

Skip Lockwood, 69

Joe Rudi, 69

George Lauzerique, 68

This list is updated as of today, 01-08-2021 and will now supersede all previous lists on this thread. Most recent member to come off the list is Pitcher Tommy Lasorda (also, of course, Dodger HOF manager) RIP Tommy - https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=lasord001tho

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Former Kansas City Athletics pitcher Jim Archer has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...rcheji02.shtml

List at Post # 18 is updated

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Former Kansas City Athletics pitcher Don Mossi has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ossido01.shtml

List at Post # 18 is updated

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Former Kansas City Athletics pitcher Joe Grzenda has passed away per Baseball Reference.com

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...rzenjo01.shtml

List at Post #18 is updated.