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Tentative Structure for 1955
National League
Brooklyn Dodgers
Milwaukee Braves
New York Giants (will move to MIN at some point before 1960)
Philadelphia Phillies
Cincinnati Redlegs
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Pittsburgh Pirates
American League
New York Yankees
Cleveland Indians
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Kansas City Athletics
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Senators
Western League
Seattle Pilots
San Diego Padres
Hollywood Stars
Los Angeles Angels
Portland Beavers
San Francisco Nuggets
Denver Bears
Salt Lake Bees
a couple notes about detours in the timeline weave:
If there's still a NL team present in NYC, then William Shea will likely not propose the idea of the Continental League (which included Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, New York City, Toronto, Atlanta, Dallas, and Buffalo).
Denver and Minneapolis would already have major league caliber teams.
If the Senators don't move to Minneapolis, and the Angels are already a professional team, then the 1961 AL expansion doesn't happen.
Without the need for the New York Mets, then the 1962 NL expansion would not look the same.
Kansas City, San Diego, and Seattle already have teams so the 1969 expansion would look different if it occurred. There's no guarantee that the Athletics stay in KC though, so we'll see when the mid-60s roll around.
There will likely be an agreement reached between the3 leagues to merge the AL & NL into a new larger "Eastern Conference", with the American and National monikers retained as their sub-leagues. Turning the Western League into a "Western Conference". Once this agreement is made, teams from the AL/NL could be more likely to relocate west since the Western League was staunchly against it prior to this agreement.
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