Inductees

Ernie Mehl worked at the Kansas City Star for nearly 50 years, serving from 1950 to 1965 as sports editor. It was partially due to Mehl’s efforts that Kansas City got its first major league baseball team, the Kansas City Athletics. Later, in 1967, when the Athletics moved to Oakland, California, Mehl led the effort to convince the American League to grant an expansion franchise to Kansas City, with Ewing Kauffman (MSHOF 1976) as the new owner. He wrote a book about the team, The Kansas City Athletics, which was published in 1956.