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Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

baseball team is currently owned by an ownership group led by

John Sherman John Sherman (May 10, 1823October 22, 1900) was an American politician from Ohio throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as ...

. The franchise was first established by

Ewing Kauffman Ewing Marion Kauffman (September 21, 1916 August 1, 1993) was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Major League Baseball owner. Early life and education Ewing Kauffman was born on September 21, 1916, on a farm near Gard ...

in 1967.

Owners

(1967—1993) **

Avron Fogelman Avron B. Fogelman (born March 1, 1940) is an American businessman and real estate developer. He was a former part owner of the Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals as well as several Memphis-based sports teams.Jim MasilaFogelman boxes up sp ...

(1983—1991, part owner) *Ewing Kauffman estate (1993—2000) *

David Glass David Glass may refer to: *David Glass (businessman) (1935–2020), American executive *David Glass (Canadian politician) (1829–1906), Canadian lawyer and political figure * David Glass (Israeli politician) (1936–2014), Israeli politician *Davi ...

(2000—2019) *

(2020—present, majority owner) **Alan Atterbury **Dan Dees **Mark Demetree ** The Dunn Family **Paul Edgerly **Bill Gautreaux **

Mike Haverty Mike Haverty (born June 11, 1944) is a fourth generation railroader who began his career as a switchman/brakeman in 1963 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad in his hometown of Atchison, Kansas. In 1970 he went to work for the Atchison, Topeka & S ...

**J. B. Hebenstreit **Carl Hughes **Rob Kaplan **Mariner Kemper ** The Lockton Family **

Patrick Mahomes Patrick Lavon Mahomes II (born September 17, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). The son of former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Pat Mahomes, he initially played co ...

**Peter and Veronica Mallouk **Terry Matlack **Kent McCarthy **Jay Pack **PJM Baseball, LLC **PlayBallKC, LLC **Seventh Inning Stretch, LLC **Brooks Sherman **

Eric Stonestreet Eric Allen Stonestreet (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for portraying Cameron Tucker in the ABC mockumentary sitcom ''Modern Family'', for which he received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting ...

**Don Wagner

General Managers

Cedric Tallis Cedric Nelson Tallis (July 29, 1914 – May 8, 1991) was an American executive in Major League Baseball who served as the first general manager of the expansion Kansas City Royals and later played an important role in the New York Yankees' dynasty ...

(1968—1974) * Joe Burke (1974—1981) *

John Schuerholz John Boland Schuerholz Jr. (; born October 1, 1940) is an American baseball front office executive. He was the general manager of Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves from 1990 to 2007, and then served as the Braves president for a decade from 2 ...

(1981—1990) *

Herk Robinson Spencer "Herk" Robinson (born 1941) is a retired American front office executive in Major League Baseball. He served for almost a decade as general manager of the Kansas City Royals, from October 10, 1990, through June 17, 2000, and was an executive ...

(1990—2000) *

Allard Baird Allard Baird (; born November 8, 1961) is an American professional baseball executive, most recently serving as the vice president and assistant general manager for scouting and player development for the New York Mets until November 6, 2020. Curr ...

(2000—2006) *

Dayton Moore Dayton Moore (born February 17, 1967) is an American baseball executive who is currently serving as Senior Advisor of Baseball Operations for the Texas Rangers Moore's baseball career began as an assistant coach at George Mason University. H ...

(2007—2021) * J. J. Picollo (2022—present)

Other executives

Larry Doughty Larry Doughty was the General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team, from 1989 to 1991.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OcAqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BmQEAAAAIBAJ&dq=thrift%20drug%20classic%20pittsburgh&pg=4139%2C9304685 Doughty t ...

Dan Glass Dan Glass (born 1959) is the former president of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team. Glass is the son of former Royals owner David Glass who acquired the team in 2000 and immediately installed his son to succeed Mike E. Herman who ...

Lou Gorman James Gerald "Lou" Gorman (February 18, 1929 – April 1, 2011) was an American baseball executive, and the former general manager of the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He spent more than three decades in baseball op ...

* Michael E. Herman *

Joe Klein Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for ''Time'' magazine and his novel ''Primary Colors'', an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton' ...

Art Stewart Arthur Stewart (February 6, 1927 – November 11, 2021) was an American baseball front-office executive and scout. He began his Major League Baseball (MLB) scouting career with the New York Yankees in 1953. He later joined the Kansas City Roya ...

* Dean Taylor

References

External links

Baseball America: Executive Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Kansas City Royals Owners And Executives

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Owners and executives