Highlighted entries:
1967
Arthur Allyn announces that his White Sox will play nine games in Milwaukee in 1968. Chicago will become the first American League team to play regular season games outside its own city since 1905.
This was a way to keep some hope of baseball alive in Milwaukee after the Braves left for Atlanta.
1956
The Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group. They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961.
Yeah. The Dodgers will stay in Brooklyn. Sure they will.
1911
Clark Griffith is named manager at Washington, beginning a stand in the Capital as manager, then owner, that will last until his death in 1955.
Not quite Connie Mack, but close.
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