alternatehistory.com

A/N: This may be my first real timeline, though I did a few on soc.history.what-if in the 1990s. I could put them up if you like, if I still have them, but it'd take a while.

Anyway, this is only through 1969, and I know not a lot of you will enjoy American baseball the way I do it - very detailed with the trades, etc. - but, hey, there have been other sports ones on here.

If I do get the rest done I'll let you know - I'm blogging a couple books I wrote and giving peoploe the chance to donate (can't say buy since you can read for free) whatever they think they're worth. I'm doing that with If Baseball Integrates Early, too - it's impossible to find a publisher nowadays, even a literary agent before you get to the publisher phase. Soon, I'll put my blogs in my signature, too, in case anyone wants to read, though of coure, you don't have to buy them.

Anyway, to set the stage for the non-baseball historians, in 1898 or 1899 Frank Robison bought St. Louis' National League team at a sheriffs' sale, after already owning the Cleveland franchise. He promptly moved all the good Cleveland players to St. Louis, the Sipders collapsed, going 20-134 (!), and were out of the N.L. with 3 other teams; 2 bad ones and Baltimore, which had been good int he 1890s.

Here, Robison doesn't hear of the sale, it's St. Louis that's kicked out as they go from 12 to 8 teams again, and the rest, as they say, is Alternate History.
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