Kansas City Royals
Adair was taken by the Kansas City Royals with the 51st pick of the 1968 MLB expansion draft. In the Royals' inaugural season of 1969, the 32-year-old Adair hit .250 with 5 home runs and 48 RBI in 126 games.
In 1970, Adair hit just .148 (4-for-27) before being abruptly released on May 12 as he was about to board a plane to make a road trip to Cleveland with the team. Adair had spent much of spring training that year with a young daughter who had terminal cancer (she died a few weeks after his release) and claimed the Royals let him go without taking the family's problems into consideration.
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