American Baseball Association 1947
During the War, baseball finally had to be abandoned as national priorities were elsewhere, as were most major league players, and resources scarce.
The atomic bomb experiments in the desert created a rift in the space-time continuum theorized by Albert Einstein, with curious results: the effects were mainly in the world of baseball, as players of all eras and times from (according to Einstein's Nobel Prize winning estimates) 1901 to 2001 were now arriving in the world of 1947 and could be expected to do so for the foreseeable future. Einstein also calculated that the style of play was probably from the Historical Year 1978.
Teaching physics at Princeton, Einstein became an enthusiastic follower of the New Jersey Owls, one of the teams subsequently formed in the new American Baseball Association, an independent association made up of two leagues, later named the Eastern and Western Leagues.
The Association started up play in 1947, banning the old Major League policy of racial segregation, so with integrated teams for the first time.
It planned a National Championship Series to replace the old World Series, with the winners of the pennants of each of the two leagues playing a best 4 out of 7 Series.
It was decided that, having begun the leagues haphazardly, the two geographically named leagues would become consistent starting in 1948, with the Eastern League consisting of the New Jersey Owls playing in the new Shea Stadium built in the NJ Meadowlands, the New York Metropolitans (Polo Grounds), the Brooklyn Cyclones (Ebbets Field), the Baltimore Blackbirds (Memorial Stadium), Philadelphia Quakers (Baker Bowl), Pennsylvania Miners (Forbes Field), New England Patriots (Braves Field), and the Montreal Maples (Jarry Park) to be in the Eastern League. The Western League instead would starting in 1948 consist of the following teams: The Cleveland Blues (Cleveland Municipal), Nashville Sounds (Atlanta Fulton County Stadium - don't ask), Denver Cowboys (Mile High Stadium), Kansas City Monarchs (Kansas City Municipal Stadium, San Francisco Seals (Seals Stadium), Chicago Herons (Wrigley Field), Seattle Neptunes (Sicks Stadium), and Milwaukee Northstars (Milwaukee County Stadium).
Here is how things looked after the Association's first three weeks of play:
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