Life was Different the Last Time the Royals Were in the World Series
A lot has changed since 1985.
— -- The Kansas City Royals are back in the World Series for the first time in 29 years.
The team won its last title on Oct. 27, 1985, topping the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. This time around, the San Francisco Giants stand in the way of Kansas City’s title hopes. The 2014 World Series opens tonight at Kauffman Stadium.
A lot has changed since the Royals last played in the World Series, from world events to popular culture and technology.
1. This year’s electees in the National Baseball Hall of Fame – Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas – had yet to make their Major League Baseball debuts.
2. The Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks baseball teams didn’t exist yet.
3. Pete Rose was still playing, recently breaking the all-time hit record.
4. The top song in the country was Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You,” off of her debut album.
5. U.S. postage was 22 cents.
6. The country’s top movie at the box office was “Jagged Edge,” starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges. But the year belonged to “Back to the Future,” which earned more than $210 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
7. Artist Georgia O’Keefe was still alive. So was actor James Cagney, performer Liberace and pop artist Andy Warhol.
8. The character Elmo had yet to become a “Sesame Street” star.
9. Singer Bruno Mars was less than a month old.
10. The first Nintendo home video game console in the United States – the Nintendo Entertainment System – was released Oct. 18, 1985 in North America.
11. The wreck of the Titanic had been located weeks earlier.
12. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev prepared to meet for the first time.
13. Microsoft’s Windows 1.0 operating system was less than a month from release.
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