The Royals exhibition seasons were held in the spring training facilities of Sarasota, Florida, and they shared the accommodations with the Triple-A squad from Omaha, Nebraska, and the Double-A team from Sarasota, Florida.  Exhibition games usually consisted of the Waterloo squad starting the first of three games then surrendering the field to the more competitive Double and Triple A squads.
 
    The players and coaches on the 1975 Royals team were unique conglomerates of personalities who put together a championship season.  The exhibition season offered these players a chance to regain the positions that they held the previous season or catch a coach's eye and be promoted to a more competitive league.  The most dreaded situation would occur when a player would not make the cut, which was the fate of two of the Royals' preseason players named Sam Castro, a catcher, and Roy Tanner, who collected a number of hits in the preseason.  With no league to fall back into (since the rookie league accepted only players with an amateur status), players such as Castro and Tanner quite often found employment in other positions in baseball or took on other pursuits. Fortunately, for players such as Steve Blomberg, Joe Gates, Darrell Parker, and Karel deLeeuw, the exhibition season offered them a stage to display their talents and they were rewarded with spots on the roster in Waterloo.  Blomberg's best moment of the persuasion was undoubtedly on April Fool's Day of 1975 when he went six for six at the plate.  Blomberg accounted for one home run, a double, and four singles as well as a stolen base.¹⁷