When will MLB add more teams? - Ep. 127
12/17/20 • 29 min
The last teams to come into MLB are now 23 seasons old (1998 the Rays and D'Backs). For 60 years there were only 16 teams in MLB. After the Dodgers and Giants moved in 1958, expansion really began to take off in 1961 with the Los Angeles Angels and another incarnation of the Washington Senators when the previous Senators team moved to Minnesota to become the Twins.
With franchise valuations continuing to increase it's highly likely that baseball will further expand both domestically and internationally? Where it goes next is still anyone's guess. We track the history of MLB expansion in under 30 minutes.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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The last teams to come into MLB are now 23 seasons old (1998 the Rays and D'Backs). For 60 years there were only 16 teams in MLB. After the Dodgers and Giants moved in 1958, expansion really began to take off in 1961 with the Los Angeles Angels and another incarnation of the Washington Senators when the previous Senators team moved to Minnesota to become the Twins.
With franchise valuations continuing to increase it's highly likely that baseball will further expand both domestically and internationally? Where it goes next is still anyone's guess. We track the history of MLB expansion in under 30 minutes.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
www.almostcooperstown.com
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MLB Team Road Trips - Ep. 126
In the pre-1900's days of professional baseball teams did not travel all that far to play games which often were played on Sunday afternoon. By 1901 with the birth of the American League, teams traveled by train and even by boat. No other sport to this day has scheduled road trips like baseball. With a 162 game schedule, players still leave home and go on the road for as long as 2 weeks. Sportswriters no longer get to travel on the team plane as they once did on the trains that would carry teams from city to city until air travel for MLB teams became the standard in the last 1950's.
The writers and players had a very different relationship during the days of train travel and some of the most quotable characters were baseball players providing juicy nuggets for famous and aspiring sportswriters.
Yogi Berra, Dizzy Dean, and Ralph Kiner are just a few of the most quotable players from the first half of the 20th century. Today of course it's all about social media posts.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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Major changes ahead for Minor League Baseball - Ep. 128
As fans know, there was no Minor League (or college) baseball this past season. To make things more challenging MLB has made the biggest changes in MiLB in nearly 60 years. The farm systems developed by Branch Rickey in the 1930's are nearly unrecognizable today.
There are many notable Minor League Baseball players like Michael Jordan and Tim Tebow (who will try again this season to be a NY Met). What kind of future does Minor League baseball have in the U.S.? Should MLB consider supplying college teams with wood bats? We're fans of Minor League baseball in general yet aware that there are many more entertainment options that put the future of MiLB in jeopardy.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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