The Kansas City Cowboys were a

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baseball team that played one season in . They played at

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and finished with a 30–91 record. They finished in seventh place, ahead of another new team, the

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. They were not connected to the Union Association Cowboys. The Cowboys were admitted to the National League on a trial basis for the 1886 season. The team went out of business in February, 1887, having been forced to sell its players back to the league for $6,000. They were replaced in the league by

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, which moved to the league from the

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.Baseball Chronology: 1887

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