Question: What year saw the founding of the baseball team where Hal McRae played from 1973-87?

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Taiwan Power Company baseball team: The Taiwan Power Company Baseball Team (), also known as Taipower Baseball Team (Traditional Chinese: 台電棒球隊), is one of the two amateur baseball teams in Taiwan's First Division amateur baseball league that are owned by government sponsored corporation.  It was founded in 1948, and, along with Taiwan Cooperative Bank Baseball Team, have a long tradition of being the two dominant baseball teams in Taiwan's baseball history.  At one point, they were known as TCB of the North, Taipower of the South (Traditional Chinese: 北合庫，南台電).  Although many of its most prominent players left for professional career after the founding of Chinese Professional Baseball League, and struggled to keep its players on the team, it is still considered one of the best teams in the amateur league.  It also has been training some of the best baseball players Taiwan had to offer, and many of them are still valuable players on their current team.s

List of New York Yankees managers: The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in New York City, New York in the borough of The Bronx.  The New York Yankees are members of the American League (AL) East Division in Major League Baseball (MLB).  The Yankees have won the World Series 27 times, more than any other MLB team.  In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager.  The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.  Since starting to play as the Baltimore Orioles (no relationship to the current Baltimore Orioles team) in 1901, the team has employed 34 managers.  The current Yankee manager is Joe Girardi, the current general manager is Brian Cashman and the current owners are Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, who are sons of George Steinbrenner, who first bought the Yankees in 1973.

Bruno Thiry: He began his career as an amateur in 1981, driving a Simca, and quickly became very successful in the Belgian Rally Championship.  by 1991 to 1993, he joined the GME team that contested only in some selected World Rally Championship (WRC) events and in non-WRC events.  In 1992, he managed a first podium finish for him on the final running of the notorious Rallye Côte d'Ivoire and finished second in an ex-works Opel Kadett GSI.  The following year saw Thiry win some WRC events in an Opel Astra in the F2 category and brought GME its first manufacturer's title of the inaugural FIA 2-Litre World Cup in 1993.  1994, the year saw Thiry join the Ford team to contest the WRC, driving a Ford Escort RS Cosworth.  In these years, he managed several third places; in the RAC Rally in 1994 and in Rally San Remo and the Rally Catalunya in 1996.  He finished fifth overall in the WRC standings in 1994.

Kansas City Royals: The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.  The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member team of the American League (AL) Central division.  The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1969, and has participated in four World Series, winning in 1985 and 2015, and losing in 1980 and 2014.

Bill Kernen: Bill Kernen (born August 1, 1948 in Boise, Idaho) is the retired former head coach of the California State University, Bakersfield baseball team.  Prior to that position he was the head coach of the California State University, Northridge baseball team from 1989–1995, and the pitching coach for the California State University, Fullerton baseball team from 1978–1982 and 1986-87.  Following this he was the pitching coach at University of Illinois from 1987-88.  He was the pitching coach at North Carolina State from 2001-1003.  Before founding and building the program at CS Bakersfield, he was again an assistant at CS Fullerton in 2006-2007.  In addition to his baseball coaching achievements, Kernen is also an accomplished playwright, having been produced on the New York stage seven times.  He is the producer, writer and director of a short film made in 2006.  Kernen was a professional baseball player in the Baltimore Oriole organization from 1970-72.

Gord McRae: Gordon Alexander McRae (born April 12, 1948 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a retired professional hockey goaltender.  He played in 71 regular season and 8 playoff games for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League during the 1970s.  After a three-year college career with the Michigan Tech Huskies, McRae played with Charlotte of the Eastern Hockey League and Providence in the American Hockey League before joining the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League in 1971.  Signed by Toronto, he first appeared with the Leafs in 11 games during the 1972–73 season.  He spent the next few years bouncing between the NHL club and its minor league affiliates in the CHL.  His best season was 1974–75 when he appeared in 20 games, posting a 10–3–6 record with a 3.29 GAA.  He backstopped the team to a first-round playoff upset over the Los Angeles Kings that season.  McRae final seasons were either as a back-up with the Leafs or in the Central League before retiring after the 1977–78 season.  While with the Dallas Black Hawks of the CHL in 1976–77, he won the Terry Sawchuk trophy and was named to the CHL first All-Star team.

Hal McRae: Harold Abraham McRae ( ; born July 10, 1945) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1968, 1970–72) and Kansas City Royals (1973–87).  Utilized as a designated hitter for most of his career, McRae batted and threw right-handed.  He is the father of former major league outfielder Brian McRae.

Jim Patterson Stadium: Jim Patterson Stadium is a baseball stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.  It is the home field of the University of Louisville Cardinals college baseball team.  It hosted the 2007 NCAA Super Regionals, where the Cardinals defeated Oklahoma State two games to one to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.  Since then, the Cardinals have hosted a NCAA Division I Baseball Championship every year since the year of 2012.  In 2016, the Cardinals ranked 27th among Division I baseball programs in attendance, averaging 2,606 per home game.  Along with that, the Cardinals have been ranked in the top 10 amongst other collegiate baseball teams in the nation according to Baseball America.  Coach Dan McDonnell has been the head coach of the Louisville Cardinals baseball team since the year of 2007 after coming from Ole Miss as an assistant coach.  Since making his way to Louisville, he has led the team to four College World Series and seven NCAA Super Regionals.

Bud Middaugh: Forest L. "Bud" Middaugh (born c. 1939) is a former American baseball coach.  He was the head baseball coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1968 to 1979 and at the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1989.  He compiled a record of 359-173 at Miami, leading the Redhawks to three Mid-American Conference championships and four appearances in the NCAA playoffs.  In 1980, he became the head coach at Michigan.  In ten years as the head coach at Michigan, he led the Michigan Wolverines baseball team to a 465–146–1 record, seven Big Ten Conference championships and four appearances in the College World Series.  He developed several Major League Baseball players at Michigan, including Barry Larkin, Chris Sabo, Hal Morris, Scott Kamieniecki, and Jim Abbott.  Middaugh resigned as Michigan's baseball coach in June 1989 after it was revealed that he had given money collected by selling programs at football games to members of the Michigan baseball team.  Middaugh was inducted into the Miami University Hall of Fame in 1981.  Middaugh began his coaching career at Lorain Admiral King High School in Lorain, Ohio.  In three years at Admiral King, Middaugh compiled a record of 52–14 and coached his team to a Cleveland district championship and a Buckeye Conference championship.

Brian McRae: Brian Wesley McRae ( ; born August 27, 1967) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies and Toronto Blue Jays from 1990 to 1999 .  McRae is the son of former major league All-Star, Hal McRae, and was also managed by the elder McRae for four seasons with Kansas City.  It was only the fourth occurrence of a major league manager managing his own son.

Supporting paragraphs: Hal McRae Kansas City Royals
Answer: 1969