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The 1961 major league baseball season began on April 10, 1961. The regular season ended on October 1, with the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively.
Major League Baseball (MLB), the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning in 1961, eventually reaching 30 teams with its most recent expansion taking place in 1998. MLB has discussed preparations for another round of expansion.
The 1961 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the American League (AL). A new club was started in Washington, D.C., and took the existing name of the Senators, as the previous team of the same name moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul for the start of the 1961 season and became the Minnesota Twins.
This is a list of seasons of Major League Baseball 1870s. Year National League champion ... 1961: Cincinnati Reds: New York Yankees ... 2024: New York Yankees: Los ...
In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
After their major-league debuts, many of these players appeared in professional leagues other than MLB. Included are multiple "bonus babies", who joined major-league rosters from 1947 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1965 under the bonus rule , which obligated major-league teams to keep players awarded large signing bonuses on their rosters for two ...
Pages in category "1961 Major League Baseball season" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... This page was last edited on 2 December 2024 ...
The 1961 MLB Expansion Draft was held by Major League Baseball on October 10, 1961, to fill the rosters of the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45s, the new franchises which would enter the league in the 1962 season.