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Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line

Posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Wed Oct 17 20:16:04 2012, in response to Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Oct 17 13:31:06 2012.

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Actually, by 57 teams were transitioning to planes for trips like say, NY-CHI/MIL/ST, and so on. The Red Sox had a great hitter named Jackie Jensen who was deathly afraid of flying, and he ended up retiring prematurely because of that.

And to sort of keep this OT, occasionally teams will charter an Amtrak train to travel NY-BAL/WAS/PHI - the Yankees, in fact, after the last game in Baltimore of the recent Division Series, got stuck in Baltimore for a while when Amtrak had power problems on the NEC - they ended up having to quickly charter some buses!

As far as why the Angels were the only west coast AL team when expansion started happening lies mostly in the idea that only the REAL big metro areas can support two MLB teams - as Charlie Finley found out when he moved the A's to Oakland in 1967. Before the Braves moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, MLB had 16 teams in only 9 cities! There were two teams in Boston, Philly, Chicago and St. Louis - plus the three NY teams. And only a couple of those cities really had the population to support two teams, or in NY's case three - and one could argue that NY couldn't really support 3!

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