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Here's my take on what you'd like to do and some comments to supplement what Charlie Hough wrote:
First, according to the book EVEN THE BROWNS, there was a deal in principal to sell the Browns and move them to LA in 1940. Wrigley held up the deal by haggling over the sale of LA's Wrigley Field (where the Angels played in their early days). Then came Pearl Harbor and MLB decided a team on the West Coast was a bad idea, so the deal fell through.
As mentioned above, historical expansion will happen in 1961 if you play that way. If you go with the dynamic league choice, anything can happen. Attendance totals won't cause moves from what I've seen (admittedly not much experience with that).
In order to best avoid the problem of knowing how players will turn out in an historic setting, I go with development on and potential based on best three years of career. This will cause some obscure players to be very good, and some very good players to be ordinary, but I find that preferable to knowing who is going to be great with near-certainty.
Playing with rookies coming up with their real teams does not make for very historically accurate rosters over time. There are lots of examples of why not, and in the era you want to play their will be an enormous amount of players coming up with the Yankees who won't be traded to their historic teams. Many catchers blocked by Berra won't be traded to their historic team. Jackie Jensen usually stays in NY, for a few specifics.
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