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As most baseball fans will know, the Washington Senators and the Kansas City Athletics moved to California in 1957, becoming the first MLB teams on the West Coast. One year later, the New York Giants left for Minneapolis, leaving the Dodgers as the only NL team in New York. However, the Dodgers' new stadium proposal nearly fell through, and if it had, Walter O'Malley was considering moving the team to Los Angeles, beating the A's there. Another NL team would've had to move with them to gain approval; this likely would have been the Giants, as they were on their way out of New York regardless.

So what if the stadium proposal did fall through, and the Dodgers and Giants moved to California? This would have left no NL teams in New York, so they almost certainly would have gotten one in the 1961 expansion. Meanwhile, the Senators and Athletics likely still would have moved - one would probably end up in Minneapolis, but where would the other team move to?
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