On Tuesday, the Kansas City Royals will play their first postseason game in almost 29 years. Those Royals, led by George Brett, beat the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series. The year was 1985.

That postseason featured several changes that are familiar now. It was the first year that the League Championship Series were seven games instead of five, and that all the World Series games were shown in prime time. Tim McCarver was in the ABC booth for his first World Series, joining Al Michaels and Jim Palmer as a late replacement for Howard Cosell, who had been feuding with the network. (McCarver called his last World Series game in 2013.)

Fox will telecast the World Series for the 15th year in a row. But Fox did not exist as a network in October 1985. That is just one slice of life from the last time the Royals were in the playoffs. Back then ...