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Last night I went to a trivia night contest at a local bar and one of the questions was \u2013 what number are the three uniform numbers retired by the Royals all divisible by? (answer below*) Retired numbers are reserved for the greatest in club history. But we all have our favorites that weren\u2019t necessarily Hall of Famers, All-Stars, and sometimes they\u2019re not even starting players.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite Royals of all-time was Joe Randa. Nicknamed \u201cthe Joker\u201d for his wide smile while he batted, Randa was a sure-handed third baseman and a doubles machine who seemed to have a knack for clutch hitting. He was a bit quiet and unassuming, modest, and hard-working \u2013 and fans loved that. He returned the love, calling Kansas City his home, even after he was traded away early in his career. He returned and become a solid starter and key to one of the best offenses in club history. He never made an All-Star team, but he\u2019s one of my favorite players \u2013 I was fortunate enough to write his biography<\/a> for the Society of American Baseball Research.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n I have had some other favorites that never even reached the fame of Randa. Rey Palacios, Rusty Meacham, Esteban German, Justin Huber, Nori Aoki<\/a>, Tim Collins<\/a>, and of course, Kila Kaaihue were all guys I rooted for to make it.<\/p>\n Who was your favorite under-the-radar Royals player of all-time?<\/p>\n *-Five. (#5 George Brett, #10 Dick Howser, #20 Frank White)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I went to a trivia night contest at a local bar and one of the questions was \u2013 what number are the three uniform numbers retired by the Royals all divisible by? (answer below*) Retired numbers are reserved for the greatest in club history. But we all have our favorites that weren\u2019t necessarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2447305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[357719,315982,480488,310650,43627,311235,480490,480489,388827],"class_list":["post-2447304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-getty-images","tag-joe-randa","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-nori-aoki","tag-tim-collins","tag-trivia-night"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Who-is-your-favorite-under-the-radar-Royals-player-of-all-time.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447306,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447304\/revisions\/2447306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}