A little Kansas City journalism about Kansas City magic, by Sam Mellinger.

A baseball revival is a new star hammering a pitch so hard and so far into the seats that a fan base going through all this craziness for the first time demands a curtain call. A new history is being written. The old story was about George Brett and Frank White and Bret Saberhagen.
The revival is about Alex Gordon clearing the bases with a line drive off the wall and James Shields winning a big game and Eric Hosmer hitting another home run. The whole thing is just so darn fitting. This is what it should look like when a bunch of friends take to changing a franchise’s history.

I thought we’d be talking about Mr. Brett forever. And we will. But now there’s more.

— Michael R. Strain is a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute. You can write to him on Twitter at twitter.com/MichaelRStrain.