Baseball what-if: the Browns move east after 1941

It's well documented (see the book Even the Browns as source material) that the St. Louis Browns, plagued by years of weak teams and poor attendance, got their ducks in a row for a move to Los Angeles for the 1942 season, only to be forced to remain in St. Louis by wartime travel restrictions. However, suppose that as a sort of consolation prize, they proposed a move to Baltimore instead?

Baltimore was a minor (International League) city at the time, but one with a very sizable defense industry--meaning lots of folks with money for limited amounts of recreation. Further, such a move would probably have meant a net decrease in travel for American League teams, since Baltimore was on the way between Washington and Philadelphia: teams playing the A's and Senators could very easily have gotten off the train in Baltimore to play the Orioles without incurring any more miles traveled--and the run from St. Louis to Chicago and points east would have been eliminated.

So the questions are:

* Would such a move have sold to the other AL owners of the day?
* How would such a move have affected wartime baseball (the '44 Browns won the one and only pennant that team would ever win)?
* What would have been the post-war effects on the game?
 
It's not hard to consider, since it eventually did happen 13 years later. Possibly, with the post-war baseball attendance boom benefitting the Baltimore team (Orioles?) moreso than Washington might lead the Griffith family to move the Senators out of DC a lot sooner than 1961.
 
The Senators left DC in 1971, not 1961. 1972 was the first year of the Texas Rangers.
It's not hard to consider, since it eventually did happen 13 years later. Possibly, with the post-war baseball attendance boom benefitting the Baltimore team (Orioles?) moreso than Washington might lead the Griffith family to move the Senators out of DC a lot sooner than 1961.
 
The Senators left DC in 1971, not 1961. 1972 was the first year of the Texas Rangers.


There were two Washington Senators teams. The first was one of the American League's eight original franchises, playing from 1901-1960. In 1961, the Griffith family moved the team to Minnesota where they began play as the Twins. Congress threatened MLB's anti-trust exemption unless another team was put in DC, so the AL expanded, with a new team in Washington, (the other in Los Angeles). This second Senators team played from 1961 to 1971 before moving to Arlington in 1972.
 
Does this impact the survival of the Pacfic Coast League? Enough that it becomes a true major? Even gets amalgamated with/adopted by MLB?
 
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