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Sctvman · 03-31-2021, 11:23 PM

Major League Baseball consisted of just 16 teams from 1903 until after World War II. For a large amount of this time, no team was west of St. Louis or south of Washington.

While other leagues such as the American Football League (AFL) and NFL added teams all over the country, MLB remained pretty much status quo. With television blackouts of national TV games in home team cities in the 1950s, fans could not see other games. MLB moved teams throughout the 1950s, but they took them from cities that had them for decades such as Brooklyn and the second teams in St. Louis and Philadelphia.

In this dynasty, I will expand the league by two teams every few years in order to help to grow the game to other regions. I will also simulate the expansion drafts for each to see what they would be like if they existed in the 1950s. The World Baseball Classic will also be a part of this simulation.

In this simulation, I will expand at times I see fit. I will play two seasons (1946 and 1947) before my first expansion.

03-31-2021, 11:23 PM	#1
Sctvman Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 423	The NL Expansion Orioles Major League Baseball consisted of just 16 teams from 1903 until after World War II. For a large amount of this time, no team was west of St. Louis or south of Washington. While other leagues such as the American Football League (AFL) and NFL added teams all over the country, MLB remained pretty much status quo. With television blackouts of national TV games in home team cities in the 1950s, fans could not see other games. MLB moved teams throughout the 1950s, but they took them from cities that had them for decades such as Brooklyn and the second teams in St. Louis and Philadelphia. In this dynasty, I will expand the league by two teams every few years in order to help to grow the game to other regions. I will also simulate the expansion drafts for each to see what they would be like if they existed in the 1950s. The World Baseball Classic will also be a part of this simulation. In this simulation, I will expand at times I see fit. I will play two seasons (1946 and 1947) before my first expansion.