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Originally Posted by mm7607
What would have happened had the Browns moved to LA yet failed terrible at the gates? Would teams had raced to Florida instead of Cali? Tampa Dodgers and Miami Giants And later the Orlando Angels and Jacksonville A's.
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Very unlikely. In the decade after the end of the war, there was no southern city, with the possible exceptions of New Orleans and Houston, that were big enough to support a major league team. In 1950, for instance, Miami was smaller than Akron, Ohio and Tampa was smaller than Evansville, Indiana. The big population boom in Florida didn't really begin until the mid-1960s, at which point most of the franchise moves and the first round of expansion had already taken place.