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The Houston Sports Association was formed in 1957 and bought a minor league baseball team four years later. The group was given a controlling interest in Houston's expansion team, which was named the Houston Colt .45s. It played at Colt Stadium. [12] It would only be a few years later in 1965 that the team would become the Houston Astros.
The 1998 expansion remains the most recent to be conducted in Major League Baseball. MLB would later reverse the imbalance created by the 1998 expansion when, following the sale of the Houston Astros , the new owners agreed to move their franchise to the American League before the 2013 season.
Note: Team names are given here according to the convention used by The Baseball Encyclopedia, which regularized them into the familiar form of modern team names. However, most teams in the early period had no name, aside from that of the club (as in "Hartford Base Ball Club" or "Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia"), and nicknames like ...
Throughout the history of Major League Baseball, numerous franchises have moved or become defunct. Many of these franchises played in the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), the two existing major leagues, but other franchises played in one of the eleven major leagues that ultimately went defunct.
Pages in category "Major League Baseball expansion" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... This page was last edited on 19 February 2024, at ...
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made one thing clear: An MLB expansion team is not coming to Nashville — or anywhere — anytime soon. Manfred said during his annual ...
Tampa Bay already had a baseball park — the Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, completed in 1990. On June 10, 1990, Huizenga was awarded an expansion franchise in the National League (NL) for a $95 million expansion fee and the team began operations in 1993 as the Florida Marlins.
Fast fact: The low-budget Rays have baseball’s fifth-best record (1,041-904) and made five trips to the playoffs in the last 12 years after going a major league-worst 645-972 in their first ...