[...]... sports industry and successfully completing his dissertation on that topic, Frank received a Ph.D from the university in 1977 The current book constitutes an extension and impressive update of his dissertation work Here he traces the history of when, where, and how the American League and National League in Major League Baseball and other prominent major leagues in the sport—had expanded and also, which... the Midwest, and subsequently to an attractive and booming metropolitan area in the Southeast I was inspired to further examine the business and economics of expansion and relocation in professional baseball as I had initially discussed in my dissertation and then in Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports I restudied league expansions and team relocations in organized baseball from... origin, and development of these and less popular professional baseball leagues For example, one of them reviewed was David Pietrusza’s Major Leagues Published by McFarland in 1991, Major Leagues examines the formation and demise of 18 professional baseball organizations beginning with the rowdy and undisciplined National Association, which was formed in 1871, and ending with the disintegration and collapse... Grand Rapids, and Indianapolis each initially hosted a team in the WL that later evolved into, respectively, the AL’s Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, and Philadelphia Athletics Besides clubs in the former three places, some other WL teams had to abandon such second-tier populated cities during the mid-to-late 1890s 24 Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations Table 1.1 Major League Baseball. .. America’s most elite, popular, and prestigious professional sports league: Major League Baseball (MLB) Indeed during the late nineteenth and then early twentieth century, baseball became known as America’s pastime Meanwhile, major league teams continued to emerge, establish policies, schedules and rules, compete in home and away regular season and postseason games at their ballparks, and geographically locate... farcical Global League in 1969.7 Being then a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Pietrusza profoundly discusses when, why, and how a number of major leagues had failed such as the American Association and Union Association in the late 1800s, the Federal League and United States League in the Introduction 13 early 1900s, and the Continental League and Mexican League in the mid–... League Story and The National League Story, David Nemec’s and Saul Wisnia’s 100 Years of Major League Baseball, and Dean A Sullivan’s Late Innings Articles Within a section of the Bibliography, there are several interesting readings regarding the history, development, and reform of professional baseball and also about the decisions of major league officials to increase the number of teams and of franchise... Johnson decided to rename his organization in 1899 and refer to it as the American League (AL) Meanwhile in that year, the NL eliminated each of its teams in Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville, and Washington, D.C Consequently Johnson 21 22 Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations decided to place AL clubs in Chicago and Cleveland Furthermore, in 1899 and 1900, he declined to renew the WL’s membership... also address several key issues about the years, numbers, and consequences of expansions and team relocations within the AL and NL of MLB and other professional baseball leagues Expansion With respect to the former leagues’ previous expansions into occupied and unoccupied U.S and Canadian sports areas, a few questions are interesting to ask and also are relevant to topics in this book A list of these... nickname, the league or leagues and years in which it had operated, and a brief note about whether or not it survived This title has more than 1,100 entries and these include such unique clubs as the Staunton Hayseeds and Zanesville Flood Sufferers, and also the names of teams in the Negro Leagues and women’s U.S professional baseball leagues Although it was of marginal use for me in the research and study . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations ALSO BY FRANK P. JOZSA, JR. AND FROM MCFARLAND Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling. sports books and respect him for his career as a college teacher in economics and business administration. I’m certain that Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations