ISawGodInGibby'sRightArm
Nov 17, 2008 May 30, 2012 2 6891
Born and raised in St. Louis. I've lived in Baltimore, Berkeley and up and down the Front Range in Colorado. Currently living in Pueblo with wife and kids. I live and die with the Cardinals every year, though I will root for the Rockies when they aren't playing St. Louis. I hate the off-season. Give me warm weather and baseball!
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by ISawGodInGibby'sRightArm on May 2, 2012 12:47 PM EDT
on Viva El Birdos
There have been a few requests for a morning post, and rb is apparently awol until later today, so how about I try throwing this on here until something better comes along? There's a FanPost word minimum, so I'll give you a story of 5 cities in brief:
Once upon a time there were 5 cities, connected through baseball team moves: St. Louis, Milwaukee, Baltimore, New York and Seattle. The St. Louis Browns were established as an American Association team in 1882, and moved to the NL in 1892. By 1900, they were known as our beloved St. Louis Cardinals. The American League was established in 1901, and two of the new AL teams were the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles, both of which had had predecessor teams (defunct by 1901) with those names in their respective cities. After the first year of operation, the Milwaukee Brewers moved to St. Louis to become the new St. Louis Browns, and after the 1902 season, the Baltimore Orioles moved to New York, where they took on the name of the New York Highlanders. In 1913, the Highlanders changed their name to the Yankees.
Milwaukee went without a major league team until 1953, when the Boston Braves (nee Red Stockings, and later, among other names, the Beaneaters) moved there, as the Milwaukee Braves. A year later, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore, which had also been bereft of a major league team for 50+ years, and became the current-version Orioles. The Braves then moved to Atlanta in 1966, and once again Milwaukee went without.
In the expansion-era of baseball, which began in the early '60s, MLB put an AL team in Seattle in 1969, the Pilots, but the team went bankrupt after one year. MLB acquired the team, and moved it to Milwaukee in 1970, where it renamed the team the Milwaukee Brewers (again), while creating a new team in Seattle, the Mariners. Finally, after 1997 season, the Brewers moved to the NL, where they now reside in the Central Division with the Cardinals, occasionally wreaking havoc on our playoff hopes, but more frequently losing to the good guys.
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