Re: [bomp] 1954 Dodgers Yearbook

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> What should have happened is O'Malley should have got his Brooklyn 
> ballpark,
> and the Pacific Coast League should have become the third major league 
> during
> the early '50s.
    Could that have worked?  I mean, a third major league - The Federal 
League (http://www.toyou.com/fl/) - was tried once before (1914-1915.)
    Here's a link to some stuff on the Pacific Coast League: 
http://www.coastleague.com/
    Another link - http://webpages.charter.net/joekuras/continental.htm - 
explains that the PCL was upgraded from AAA to "Open" status in the mid-50s. 
But the Dodgers and Giants moving out west killed that off.  However, when 
NL baseball left NYC, William Shea (as in Shea Stadium) announced plans for 
the "Continental League".  Instead of a new league, though, eventually we 
got expansion teams.

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