This is a very interesting thread, and a few weeks ago I pencilled out how the league would have evolved if many of these things happened. I agree that the LA Browns would really have changed an awful lot.
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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
What I found more interesting was this: [Bowie] Kuhn shrugged off proposals by the National League's influential Walter O'Malley [owner of the Dodgers] that a third league be formed to encompass new franchises and/or that major league baseball purchase the Baltimore and Oakland franchises. |
I've never seen that quote, but I had that in mind for my (sadly dormant) Continental League projects, which you can see in my sig. The AL and NL end up as 8 team leagues, with the expansion franchises eventually in their own 16 team league. There's a lot of merit to the idea I think, especially if NY and LA had teams in the third league. Too bad Branch Rickey didn't get his way and baseball never got its AFL/ABA/WHL!