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Originally Posted by thehef
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Also found this, posted by LGO in another thread from a few years ago:
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Interestingly, in Nov. of 1952, an article in The New York Times mentioned how there were some plans being laid for a fourth potential major league. Frank Shaughnessy, then the president of the International League, was floating the idea that this proposed major league would involve the four largest cities from the American Association and the International League. Most likely this would have meant Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis from the former and Baltimore, Buffalo, Montreal, and Toronto from the latter would comprise this new major league.
A four major league setup would have simplified the post-season World Series competition.
In reality, this proposal died when the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee and the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore, removing a prime city from each minor league.
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The whole thread might be interesting to some:
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...scenarios.html
Had this four-league scenario become reality, it would've meant that the second-banana teams in St Louis, Boston, and Philadelphia - along with the Dodgers and Giants - would not have had available to them the cities in which they actually relocated, with several other larger cities taken out of the mix, too. The Dodgers and Giants would still have been viable in New York (or New Jersey), but would've likely had to work out less-than-hoped-for arrangements for new or improved ballparks. The others, however, would've logically relocated to places like Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta, or maybe Denver, or one of the smaller AA or IL cities that weren't originally chosen (Louisville or Columbus?).
Also looking for new homes around the same time might've been a few of the PCL teams in smaller markets and/or playing in smaller, clearly-not-major-league-caliber ballparks.
Fun stuff to ponder and/or spark an idea for an alternate major league setup in OOTP.
