Harry S. Truman Sports Complex

Situated at the eastern edge of Kansas City, MO, near the city limit of Independence, MO, at I-70 and Blue Ridge Cutoff, sits the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex. Unique in an era when stadiums were built for multiuse purposes, the complex included side-by-side exclusive stadiums for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and the American League's Kansas City Royals. Arrowhead, home of the Chiefs opened in the fall of 1972, with then Royals Stadium followed in the spring of 1973. Today, the baseball park is called Kauffman Stadium in honor of the late owner and philathropist Ewing Kauffman, founder of Marion Labs pharmacutical company. Mr. Kauffman was a long time Kansas City fixture and a generous benefactor to both individuals and the greater Kansas City area. Buying the Royals in 1968, right on the heels of Charlie O. Finleys double dealing that sent the K.C. Athletics to Oakland, Mr. Kauffman brought a winning organization, returned civic pride and boosted the local economy. The Royals were World Series Champs in 1985. Furthermore, Mr. Kauffman's estate was established in such a way that the Royals cannot be moved out of the Kansas City area in perpetuity. Mr. Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation to be innovative—to dig deep and get at the roots of issues and fundamentally change outcomes in people’s lives. His main goal was to disadvantaged young people get a quality education. He did setting up a trust for inner-city schools that guarantees hard-working, if economically challenged young people, a full college education upon successful high school graduation. To date, hundreds of Kansas City's youth have been beneficiaries of Mr. Kauffman's beneficence. The Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, formerly the Dallas Texans, was the crowning jewel in what at the time was deemed a folly of epic proportions. In 1959, after numerous rebuffs by the National Football League to