The first time around, he'd lived at 3616 Fourth Avenue South. Max Schumacher joined the Indians front office as ticket manager in 1957. All of baseball history could have looked absolutely, unbelievably, incredibly different. 100 greatest minor league teams of all time, "Franchise History | Indianapolis Indians Fan Zone", "Victory Field (Indianapolis) – No. Their uniforms are still excellent.) Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Braves remain in Wisconsin, where they continue to exist to this day. Working together, Allen and Mann extract the Senators south. He named the park Perry Stadium in honor of his brother James who had been killed in a plane crash. The team's mascot is Rowdie the Bear. It's true that the Browns wouldn't have arrived with Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale on their roster as the Dodgers did -- though the '41 Browns did have 20-year-old shortstop Vern Stephens, a Long Beach native who would become an eight-time All-Star and hit 39 homers in '49 -- and they wouldn't have come with the social currency of having been the team of Jackie Robinson. There's appeal to this timeline, apparently. Browns ownership had decided to move the team to Los Angeles, agreeing to purchase the Los Angeles Angels. In Game 2 of the Junior World Series, Roger Maris set a record by getting seven RBIs.[5]. (Art: Tom Forget / MLB.com), Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez, a star player in 1993's "The Sandlot," dreamed of playing for the Browns. Those players are: Samuel "Big Sam" Thompson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Luke Appling, Gabby Hartnett, Randy Johnson, Harmon Killebrew, Nap Lajoie, Al López, Rube Marquard, Joe McCarthy, Bill McKechnie, and Ray Schalk. Fantasy: Washington gets its team back.Reality: Washington almost gets its team back. → More rosters: MiLB • Triple-A East On May 18, they defeated the Louisville Colonels 24–0. In 1956, the Indianapolis Indians were 92–62. Later in the decade, the quartet of expansion teams that we remember -- the AL's Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots, and the NL's Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres -- are still constructed in the same way. But ... what if they didn't? One single day. If the vote had been scheduled for Dec. 1 rather than Dec. 8, and the wartime circumstance didn't render it void ... what does that timeline look like? Instead, they choose the classy blue and red of the longtime Pacific Coast League Padres. In Game 2 of the Junior World Series, Roger Maris set a record by getting seven RBIs. In '93, Denver and Miami receive teams. If the Browns had moved to Los Angeles in 1942, Major League Baseball probably wouldn't look exactly as we just spelled out. This one almost actually happened. To balance things out, the Mets are born to bring NL baseball back to New York, just as they are now. The Macks, longtime owners of the team, sell to San Francisco businessman Paul Fagan, who'd purchased the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals in 1945 and spent millions upgrading their stadium with the express purpose of placing a Major League team there. The night before, while Browns owners were at Comiskey Park in Chicago watching the NFL's Bears beat the Cardinals, 34-24, and eagerly anticipating the next day's presumed success, word reached the continental United States about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's subsequent entry into World War II. The Indianapolis community rallied to save the Indians. Sound crazy? They would have been called the Washington Stars. # Rehab assignment In addition to four first-place finishes and one playoff championship in that time period, Indianapolis fans saw numerous members of "The Big Red Machine" come through town. American Association Championships That said, when the Giants make it to the World Series in '54, they do so in Metropolitan Stadium, which in reality was completed in '56 but gets bumped up slightly for our purposes. For tutoring please call 856.777.0840 I am a recently retired registered nurse who helps nursing students pass their NCLEX. Howard Kellman is the long-standing "Voice of the Tribe", calling play-by-play for all but two seasons (1975 and 1980) since 1974. At that point the Indians rejoined the American Association.) The Houston Colt .45s still appear in 1962, soon becoming the Astros. In a six-year period (1984–1989), the Indians won four division titles, four straight league championships (1986–1989) and two consecutive Triple-A Classic playoffs (1988–1989) over the champions of the International League. The Indians had been affiliated with several Major League clubs over the years including Cincinnati (1939–41, 1961), Boston Braves (1946–47), Pittsburgh (1948–1951), Cleveland (1952–1956), Philadelphia (1960) and the Chicago White Sox (1962–67). He held that position until January 1969. The Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis News, and the Indianapolis Times ran complete lists of stock purchasers and their addresses. Vin Scully wouldn't have been the voice of generations of California kids. Even the Cardinals were on board -- owner Sam Breadon had offered the Browns $250,000, or more than $4 million in today's money, to simply get out of town. They just do so in the AL, getting a 40-plus-year head start on the league they eventually call home in our world. The Browns would head west, more than 15 years before the Dodgers and Giants ended up doing so. In the AL East, we have the Atlanta Senators, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees. But sub-.500 finishes during the next four seasons prompted the Indians to break from the Brewers and join the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system for the first time since 1951. Later on, Trevor Hoffman does as well. He is currently joined by Andrew Kappes, who entered his first season in 2015. He added the duties of publicity director in 1959, and became the club's general manager in 1961—a post he held through 1997. They lose to the Browns. That year's team won 95 games and the first of 21 pennants. In real life, the Brooklyn Dodgers convinced the New York Giants to move west to California with them, largely in order to have a rival on the coast to cut down on travel costs. Roster updated April 19, 2021 Bob Uecker was recognized as a Ford C. Frick Award-winning broadcaster. In '98, Phoenix and Tampa Bay would as well. Without a desperate need to return baseball to his beloved hometown, Braves minority owner Bud Selig never takes full possession of the team as he eventually did with the Brewers, and thus never becomes Commissioner. As we just noted, the real Giants moved to San Francisco at the behest of the Dodgers, but they had to be talked out of their original plan: Moving to Minneapolis. Directory List 2.3 Medium - Free ebook download as Text File (.txt), PDF File (.pdf) or read book online for free. But it wouldn't look exactly like it does now, either. In 1969, Vern Rapp joined as manager of the Indians for 7 years. On May 18, they defeated the Louisville Colonels 24–0. Of the 24 teams there, only 14 exist in the same way they do in our reality. Fantasy: The Angels are born into the National League.Reality: The Angels are born into the American League. Major League Baseball would span coast to coast. To this day, he continues as President and Chairman of the Board of Indians, Inc. Baseball wouldn't arrive in California until 1958. ‡ Restricted list Fantasy: Lots of expansion, but in a different form.Reality: Lots of expansion. 112 talking about this. Browns owner Donald Barnes was quoted in the St. Louis Star-Times that month, sounding confident about the viability of Los Angeles: "There has been considerable talk about taking one club out of St. Louis. Most games can be heard on WNDE 97.5 FM/1260 AM, and all home games air on Comcast channel 90. It wouldn't be exactly the same. With the Dodgers obviously not dragging them out west, the Giants go forward with the move to Minnesota in our alternate timeline, and in the process, they bring Mays back to the fans he'd been forced to leave several years earlier. Congrats on your 2019 World Series win. (Art: Tom Forget / MLB.com), Congratulations to the 2019 World Series champion Montreal Expos. Perhaps the most significant change in Indians history came in 1996 when the team moved downtown to a new ballpark. (In real life, he swapped them as part of a deal for the rights to Los Angeles.). The long-struggling Browns -- the team you know today as the Baltimore Orioles -- had given up on Missouri. Transportation problems could be solved through air travel.". The Padres, however, choose not to wear the brown that is so notable today, so as to not look too closely like their Southern California market rivals, the ... Browns. The 1902 and 1948 Indians were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.[1]. The Browns would triumphantly introduce themselves to Southern California. Then again, some of what actually happened seems pretty inconceivable, too. In 1998, Triple-A baseball expanded to 30 teams and consolidated into two leagues, with the Indians returning to the International League. A A's AMD AMD's AOL AOL's AWS AWS's Aachen Aachen's Aaliyah Aaliyah's Aaron Aaron's Abbas Abbas's Abbasid Abbasid's Abbott Abbott's Abby Abby's Abdul Abdul's Abe Abe's Abel Abel's (He'd actually been rumored to be trying to buy the Browns way back in 1941; while he denied it, he did say "I am in the market for a big league ballclub, but not the Browns." (In the days before Interleague Play, it has to be an American League team.). Yes, that means that decades later, the Expos stay in Montreal. The Indianapolis Indians are a Minor League Baseball team of the Triple-A East and the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Let's lean into the chaos theory and play this out. The National League is running 16 years behind schedule. Triple-A Championships The Tribe joined the IL for one season before belonging to the Pacific Coast League from 1964 through 1968. The team captured three straight pennants from 1961 to 1963, including the International League championship in 1963. Attendance nearly doubled with more than 600,000 fans coming to the ballpark in each of the first five full seasons. * On Pittsburgh Pirates 40-man roster Major League Baseball has expanded to two divisions in each league. Instead, in our hypothetical timeline, he takes his Dodgers to another fresh new ground for baseball: Texas, specifically Dallas, where O'Malley and the Dodgers had owned the Minor League Fort Worth Cats since after the war. The Browns stayed in St. Louis for another dozen years, eventually moving to Baltimore following the 1953 season to become the Orioles. I consider Los Angeles the most desirable city for a Major League team. In 1931, the New York Yankees played an exhibition game against the Lookouts. LibriVox About. This didn't happen in reality for a variety of reasons -- mainly lease issues in San Diego and financial backing issues with the presumed new ownership -- but in our alternate world, it does, in part because our Washington has lost only one team, not two. Players like Pedro Borbón, Bernie Carbo, Dave Concepción, Dan Driessen, George Foster, Ken Griffey, Ray Knight, and Hal McRae all donned Tribe uniforms. The "Atlanta Senators" has a certain ring to it. San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson -- the future governor of California -- had been threatening to sue since the moment the Padres broke their lease, so he's satisfied with an expansion team. The ballclub played its early seasons at several ballparks, including two on Washington Street, before Norm Perry, who took ownership of the team in 1929, built a new stadium on 16th Street in 1931, the Indians playing their first game there on September 5, 1931. In the AL West, it's the Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Browns, San Francisco A's and Seattle Pilots. Delino DeShields, Andrés Galarraga, Marquis Grissom, Randy Johnson, and Larry Walker played for Indianapolis during those years. The Browns wouldn't be the Orioles, and they wouldn't be in Baltimore. 16,000 fans. International League Championships The Cleveland Indians purchased the team in 1952, but after losing $500,000 on the operation over four seasons, looked to move the team. Or if Japan had attacked later, or never, or if America had never entered the war at all? It was to take place in Chicago on the morning of Monday, Dec. 8, 1941. Fantasy: Atlanta gets a team from Washington, D.C.Reality: Atlanta gets a team from Milwaukee. They'll still be called the Padres, just as the real-world Senators took the name of their departed predecessors. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. There are still too many blue-and-red teams. It wouldn't be the same at all. Giannini, the California-based co-founder of Bank of America. Read online books for free new release and bestseller The bad news is that without the designated hitter, Shohei Ohtani chooses the Browns instead. In the NL West, it's the Cincinnati Reds, Dallas Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Milwaukee Braves, Minnesota Giants and San Diego Padres. The Dallas Dodgers -- no, that name makes no sense, but neither does Los Angeles Dodgers if you really think about it -- enjoy immediate success, thanks to Koufax, Drysdale and eventually the larger-than-life Tommy Lasorda, who fits in perfectly in Texas. † Temporary inactive list A broad-based sale of stock in the team was organized. What if -- much like the fact that the National League doesn't have the designated hitter is entirely because of one ill-timed 1980 fishing trip -- this one single thing had gone differently? Special thanks to Michael Clair for content assistance. That stadium issue held constant here, as well, but with the Browns well-established in Los Angeles, O'Malley doesn't want to be a second fiddle in another town. They modeled uniforms, appeared on baseball cards and even were listed on a tentative official 1974 NL schedule opening at home in Washington against the Phillies. Earl Mann, long the owner of the Southern League's Atlanta Crackers, was known as "Mr. Atlanta Baseball," and had been looking to bring big league ball to the South for years. (Art: Tom Forget / MLB.com), Sandy Koufax won three Cy Young Awards pitching for the storied Dallas Dodgers. Since the AL has been there for two decades already, when Gene Autry's new team arrives, it does so in the NL. Whether that was a denial of the rumor or a mild dig at a team that had finished sixth or lower for 10 straight seasons is up to you.). 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