About the Texas Rangers
1) The expansion team Washington Senators, who replaced the original Washington Senators who moved to Minnesota in 1961 moved to Arlington, Texas a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area. They took the nickname Rangers in honor of the Texas Rangers law enforcement agency. While in Washington the team only had 1 year in which they [...]
About the Minnesota Twins
1) The Minnesota Twins moved to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 season. They were the first team to use a State instead of City in their name. The American League franchise began at the beginning in 1901 located in Washington. For many of those years they were known as the Washington [...]
About the Baltimore Orioles
1) The franchise of the team that would in 1954 become the present day Orioles began as part of the Western League in Milwaukee named the Brewers. The Milwaukee Brewers were one of the teams that began play in 1901 in the new American League. They finished in last place and in 1902 moved to [...]
About the New York Yankees
1) The New York Yankees was one of the original 8 American League franchises, but they did not start in New York. When the National League, in 1899, went from a 12 to 8 team league, the Baltimore Orioles was one of the teams that disbanded. When the American League became a Major League in [...]
About the Chicago White Sox
1) The Chicago White Sox was part of the final straw to turn the Western League, renamed the American League in 1900, to declare themselves a major League in 1901. Prior to 1901 the Western/American League was an underling of the National League requested permission to move the team from St. Paul to Chicago’s southside [...]
About the Detroit Tigers
1) Like many of the American League teams, the City of Detroit had fielded professional baseball teams prior to the league formation in 1901. In 1881 The National league had a team from Detroit nicknamed the Wolverines. But after the 1888 season that team was disbanded and Detroit was relegated to minor league status. Another [...]
About the Cleveland Indians
1) With the founding of the American league by Ban Johnson, the Cleveland Indians was one of the charter members. And like many of the other American League cities, Cleveland had had a history of baseball. Cleveland was one of the cities that fielded a team to play against the first professional baseball team, Cincinnati [...]
About the Oakland Athletics
1) In the 1860’s it wasn’t unusual for gentlemen athletic clubs to form baseball teams. A team from Philadelphia with the name Athletics was one of the charter members of the National League. That team was expelled from the league after one season. When the American Association began play in 1882, they too had a [...]
About the San Francisco Giants
1) In 1883 John B. Day and Jim Multrie founded two professional baseball teams in New York. They entered the Metropolitans into the America Association and the Gothams into the National league. Nearly ½ of the Gothams had been members of the disbanded Troy Trojans, which was fitting since it was their place they took [...]
About the St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals were one of the original members of the American Association that began play in 1882. At the time they were called the St. Louis Brown Stockings, a name that had been used by previous teams in St. Louis. There was a St. Louis Brown Stockings as part of the both the [...]
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