About the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1) On March 31, 1998 the Arizona Diamondbacks play their first first game in front of 50,179 fans against the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies would win that first game. In the game Travis Lee would collect their first hit (a first inning single). Later in the game he would [...]
About the Florida Marlins
1) When Major League Baseball announced that they would be expanding the National League in 1993, Wayne Huizenga led the effort to have an expansion in put in Miami. The team was named the Marlins for the fish in which he said, “… is a fierce fighter and an adversary that [...]
About the Toronto Blue Jays
1) The city of Toronto in 1977 was awarded an American League franchise becoming the second team from Canada to have a Major league team. They played their first game on April 7, 1977 defeating the Chicago White Sox. They went on to lose 107 of the next 161 [...]
About the Seattle Mariners
1) When the Pilots moved from Seattle to become the Milwaukee Brewers, the city of Seattle filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball. Finally Seattle was awarded another franchise and in 1977 the Seattle Mariners began play. It wouldn’t be until 1991 that the Mariners would have their first winning team.
2) [...]
About the Milwaukee Brewers
1) When the American League expanded in 1969, the city of Seattle was awarded a franchise. The Seattle Pilots would see 1969 as their only year. At the end of the season, Bud Selig, who was working on a way to get baseball back in Milwaukee after the move by [...]
About the Kansas City Royals
1) Shortly after the Athletics left Kansas City for Oakland in 1967, they were granted a team with the expansion of 1969. Ewing Kauffman won a bidding war for the team and named them after the American Royal Livestock Show. With smart trades that brought Amos Otis, Cookie Rojas and Fred [...]
About the San Diego Padres
1) From 1936-1968 the Pacific Coast League had a team from San Diego named the Padres. When the National League expanded into San Diego it was natural for the team to adopt that name and its legacy.
2) In 1973 the Padres drafted from the University of Minnesota Dave [...]
About the Washington Nationals
1) In some ways the Washington Nationals may feel more like the old Washington Senators (1903-1960: moved to Minnesota or 1961-1971; moved to Texas), but they began their existence in the National League as the Montreal Expos when each League expanded from 10 to 12 in 1969. The franchise was moved to [...]
Mysterious Disappearances
Since there were records there have been reports of mysterious vanishings. While some may never been fully explained many of them could have simple explanations. Here is the story of six unexplained vanishings.
In 1587 a small company made up of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children colonized the island of Roanoke [...]
About the Houston Astros
1) When Major League Baseball decided to expand in the early 1960’s, Houston joined the New York Mets in the National League. They began play in 1962 as the Houston Colt .45’s. The owner Judge Roy Hofheinz in and effort to show off the team had the players wear blue [...]
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