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MLB called for a four-team expansion to take place in 1971 at the 1967 Winter Meetings, the first expansion since 1962. However, there was a complication: influential U.S. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri was irate over the American League's approval of Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley 's arrangement to move his team to Oakland ...
Toggle Major league baseball final standings subsection. ... the Seattle Pilots, and the first MLB team in Canada, ... an All-Star who will hit .340 in 1969, ...
The 1969 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1969 season. It was the first edition of the new playoff system introduced by MLB, coinciding with the beginning of the "Divisional Era." Each league expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams and was divided into two 6-team divisions.
The team's final position in the divisional standings GB: ... 1969: MLB AL West: 2nd 88 74 .543 9 1970: MLB AL West 2nd 89 73 .549 9 1971: MLB AL West ^ 1st 101 60 ...
The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season. The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets .
1969 was the first year of divisional baseball, precipitated by the expansion of each league from 10 to 12 teams. [3] The Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots joined the American League. The San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos joined the National League. Before 1969, the first place team in each league advanced directly to the World Series.
The 1969 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 87th season in the history of the franchise, and the 32nd season for the Philadelphia Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium.The team finished fifth in the newly established National League East with a record of 63–99, thirty-seven games behind the division champion New York Mets, which went on to defeat Baltimore, four games to one, in the World Series.
[5] [6] The 1969 contest remains the last All-Star Game to date to be played earlier than prime time in the Eastern United States. President Richard Nixon originally planned to attend the Tuesday night game and throw out the first ball , and then depart for the splashdown of Apollo 11 in the Pacific Ocean. [ 5 ]