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My second idea is merge all the leagues into one league. This would’ve been easy to do in 1955. There was no DH rule yet. The All Star Game was big because it gave fans a chance to see star players from the “other” league. With one league they’d have an opportunity to see all the teams and players. So now we have a 24 team, Continental League or United League or United States League. Then you split the teams into four six team divisions. They’d be split up like this:
In the East:
New York Yankees
New York Giants
Brooklyn Dodgers
Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Senators
Pittsburgh Pirates
Philadelphia Phillies
Cincinnati Reds
Cleveland Indians
Chicago White Sox
Detroit Tigers
In the West:
Hollywood Stars
Sacramento Solons
Los Angeles Angels
San Francisco Seals
Oakland Oaks
San Diego Padres
Seattle Rainiers
Portland Beavers
Milwaukee Braves
Kansas City Athletics
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
i was thinking either a 158 game schedule where teams play teams outside their division six times. And inside their division they’d play each team ten times. Or they could do a 152 game schedule where teams play each team outside their division four games. And inside their division they’d play each team 16 times. Either way the two division winners in the east would meet in the playoffs and the two division winners in the west would meet in the playoffs. And the two winners of the playoffs would meet for the World Series.
In between the 55 and the first expansion, I’d pay close attention to the teams sharing markets, if one team struggles, maybe i relocate them. i would just relocate to a team in their region. i would do expansion in 1970 and 2000, just so it’d be on even years. Each year four teams would be added and that would that.
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