Mexico City has been an intriguing destination for expansion in several sports. Baltimore was another city in the running for an expansion team in 1993. The WHA folded before the 1974 season and the Totems joined the Central Hockey League in 1974-1975. AL executives still angry with Vincent's solution on expansion money", "BASEBALL; The Marlins? It wasn’t exactly a failed expansion bid, but the prairie town of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was prepared to welcome the St. Louis Blues in 1983. It also had a nickname (SunRays), color scheme (quicksilver, electric blue, and SunRay magenta), and a manager in waiting (Bob Boone.) “It just came to mind,” 17-year-old Tim Stump, one of several fans to submit the winning name, told reporters. The group selected was led by John Antonucci, an Ohio beverage distributor, and Michael I. Monus, the head of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain. Senator Connie Mack III from Florida, the grandson of baseball great Connie Mack and a member of the Senate Task Force on Major League Baseball, pushed Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent to expand to Florida. The Rockies? There is a growing sense around Major League Baseball that the league will eventually expand from 30 to 32 teams, and Portland, Ore. has consistently been mentioned as a potential landing spot. St. Louis was the third city that came oh-so-close to being awarded an expansion NFL team in 1993. The delegation received nearly 10,000 deposits for season tickets, but the Bisons’ bid was denied. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has made no secret of his affinity for expanding MLB from 30 to 32 or more teams. While Ravens was the leading vote getter in a Baltimore Sun poll, the team feared a Ravens logo would too closely resemble the Atlanta Falcons’ logo, and ultimately decided on Bombers. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has not shied away from talking about expanding both in the US and internationally, either. With the alignment MLB created for this season, it has rekindled conversations about future alignment and possible expansion. Not everyone was enamored with the idea, however. In 1974, the city was named one of five finalists for an expansion team along with Honolulu, Phoenix, Seattle, and Tampa Bay. The Nashville Stars could be MLB's next team – and baseball's first Black-owned club. “We’re up on everybody with the nickname and the logo,” SunRays president Pat Williams said. [citation needed]. The Ralston Purina Company sold the Blues to an ownership group in Saskatchewan, but the NHL’s Board of Governors rejected the move by a 15-3 vote. The deal to renovate KeyArena for a potential NHL expansion team was much less favorable to the NBA than the plan to construct a new arena in the city's SoDo district. Nearest Teams: 247 miles (Braves), 402 miles (Nationals) Sports History: Panthers (NFL), Hornets (NBA), Knights (AAA) The Case for… Charlotte’s population is more than enough to sustain an MLB team. // 2. Eugene Orza, associate general counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association, stated that he expected Denver would receive one of the expansion franchises. [2] On December 18, 1990, the committee eliminated Charlotte, Nashville, Phoenix and Sacramento from consideration to cut the list down to six finalists. “It’s a cowardly bird anyway,” Weinglass said of the Ravens nickname. Based on that, I suspect the expansion fee for an MLB franchise would be close to (if not more than) $1 billion, and MLB would be adding two teams, remember. For the stories of the Seattle White Sox, St. Louis Patriots and other almost-relocations, read this. Vincent said the owners expanded to raise money to pay their collusion debt. The 'Jacks !!! = 98 games , play other 8 league teams 6 games =48 games, play 8 teams in other league 2 games =16 games. Angered with being forced to remain in St. Louis, the Ralston ownership group announced it had no intention of operating the team the following season. [8], Though previous expansions allowed the drafting of players from the same league only, Vincent declared that the American League would receive $42 million of the National League's $190 million in expansion revenue so that the AL would provide players in the National League expansion draft. [10] In an attempt to win support in the American League and balance the vote, Vincent decreed that the AL owners were entitled to 22% of the $190 million take. Charm City had been without an NFL team since 1983, when the Colts left town for Indianapolis. The more teams there are, the broader the appeal, especially for fans that live in a geographical baseball desert. Hampton Roads, a metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia that includes Norfolk and Newport News, was one of nine candidates for NHL expansion in 1997. The team folded in 1948, two years after the NFL’s Cleveland Rams relocated to Los Angeles. Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn, who led the bid, chose Rhinos as the team’s nickname and a color scheme of teal, purple, and blue. - Page 5 “It will be rough and tough just like Elvis. The NHL reneged on its offer and denied Abbey’s team an expansion bid. St. Louis was considered one of the favorites to land a team and a local radio station wrote a fight song for the Stallions, who would wear purple and gold. By the time the courts ruled in favor of the league several years later, Bassett was owner of the USFL’s Tampa Bay Bandits. The team was wildly popular with local fans – Elvis reportedly attended a game – but the WFL folded in the middle of the 1975 season. Four weeks ago, I evaluated the current state of Major League Baseball, and mentioned that one of the ways to curb a non-competitive environment in the game would be to expand the postseason. The suit was settled in 2003, five years after Tampa's major league team, the Devil Rays (now simply the Rays), began play in the American League. Here are the stories of those three (almost) teams and eight other failed expansion bids in various sports. This is an extreme yet encouraging talking point given the typical doomsday talk about the state of baseball that typically graces radio airwaves. Rhinos was chosen as a replacement nickname, but the backlash from fans was so great that Weinglass and Glazer reopened the search. Make it one team. Expansion is a win-win scenario. After previous failed attempts to bring the Major League Baseball to Colorado (most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocating to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985), by the late 1980s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver. So I just kept going, and Nationals just came tumbling out.” Nationals was the name of Washington’s National League franchise in 1886 and the name the team adopted when the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington, DC, after the 2004 season. Rather, the conversation was directed toward MLB expansion to 32 MLB teams, complete league realignment, and Wild Card expansion. He had that element of danger about him.”. 1992 Major League Baseball expansion … Abbey responded by filing an antitrust suit against the league, arguing that his team’s and the WHA’s demise was primarily the result of the NHL’s growth. The city was awarded a Canadian Football League franchise in 1995, but the Mad Dogs (Presley Enterprises wasn’t an investor) folded after one season. Paul for the start of the 1961 season and became the Minnesota Twins. In 1994, Alfredo Harp Helu, the owner of the Mexican League’s Mexico City Red Devils and one of the largest banks in Mexico, submitted a bid for an expansion Major League Baseball team in Mexico City. “By the year 2000, we are going to have a franchise in Mexico City,” NBA commissioner David Stern said in 1994. It's Official", "More than just Barnum on the bill for expansion Marlins", "Denver, Miami expected to be approved as expansion cities", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1993_Major_League_Baseball_expansion&oldid=996029905, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Wikipedia introduction cleanup from June 2015, Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from June 2015, All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 03:51. MLB just wouldn't work in Nashville, for reasons of geography more than anything else. The selection of Charlotte and Jacksonville left the prospective ownership group in Memphis, led by cotton magnate William “Billy” Dunavant, crying all the time. Major League Baseball hasn’t expanded since 1998, but if there is MLB expansion, here are seven potential cities for new teams. (I remember my dad submitted Belters, a reference to both a batter hitting a ball and the Beltway that encircles DC.) Myers fully anticipated that his team would join the NFL after the 1936 season, and the Bulldogs, led by former Tulsa coach Gus Henderson, proved they were worthy by averaging nearly 10,000 fans per game and going 3-2-1 against NFL competition. Get Used to It. Five years later, an American Basketball Association team called the Houn’Dawgs played a season in Memphis before disbanding. The following year, MLB announced the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks as its newest members. The Bulldogs would take Cleveland’s place in the AFL and went undefeated in its first season in the league. Driving the news: The Portland Diamond Project, the group attempting to bring baseball to Oregon, recently revealed a list of 12 charter investors. Population base per franchise (with MLB team): 679,879 Number of Fortune 1000 Companies: 8. Abbey was scrambling to secure funding for the franchise fee that was required to join the NHL and missed a major deadline for a deposit. But the Gateway to the West, which was home to the Cardinals before they left for Phoenix after the 1987 season, missed out as the result of an internal dispute over the lease for the newly built Edward Jones Dome. “It’s a scavenger. I never read a book in my life and Edgar Allan Poe never met me.” Baltimore missed out on the NFL in 1993, but had a successful CFL team in 1994 and 1995. In 1892, the National League expanded to 12 teams with the addition of 4 teams from the American Association, which had disbanded after 10 years. The basic agreement allowed the National League to expand by two members to match the American League. Sure, New York state may have two baseball teams already. While the NBA has played several preseason games in Mexico and the NFL hosted a regular season game there in 2005, no major professional sports league has expanded south of the border. MLB has toyed with the idea of expansion teams. The decision to expand, and the process of selecting expansion cities typically takes many years. More than 70% of respondents to a poll in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal didn’t like the nickname, which was inspired by the hit single originally recorded in 1952 by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton and adapted by Elvis four years later. A recent article in Baseball America suggested MLB is considering an expansion to 32 teams and a 156-game schedule. After filing a lawsuit against Ralston, the league imposed a deadline to sell the team to a new ownership group before it would consider dissolving the Blues. While the shades-sporting baseball never made it to the big leagues – MLB awarded expansion franchises to Miami and Denver – SunRays was the nickname of Minnesota’s AA affiliate in Orlando from 1990-1992. Shinn wowed the NHL expansion committee with a 14-minute video, which noted, among other things, that two-thirds of the United States population lives within 750 miles of Hampton Roads. [4] With three sites from Florida remaining in contention it became apparent that one would win out while the other spot would go to a non-Florida team. Talks of expansion began on August 8, 1985, when the players and the owners agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Harry Myers formed the Los Angeles Bulldogs as an independent football team in 1936 and was granted a “probationary franchise” by the NFL. Buffalo’s 1990 MLB expansion delegation, which included New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Larry King, was upbeat about its chances to land a team after the minor league Buffalo Bisons set the all-time minor league attendance record in 1988. While that would likely diminish the chances of the Nationals and new Montreal team being in the same division, they still could both end up being in the NL. [12], Establishment of the 27th and 28th teams in MLB, Major League Baseball Players Association, 1992 Major League Baseball expansion draft, "NL will grow by 2, but first . [3], The National League expansion committee consisted of Pittsburgh Pirates Chairman Doug Danfort, New York Mets president Fred Wilpon and Houston Astros owner John McMullen. The case was settled in favor of the NHL more than a decade later. Orlando was one of six cities chosen as a finalist and the only one without an existing stadium for its prospective team to call home. The NFL wasn’t looking to add another team at the time, so Bassett filed a lawsuit against the league claiming that it violated antitrust laws by denying the Grizzlies, who were briefly known as the Southmen, entry into the NFL. Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. MLB expansion teams is a topic that may seem strange to some in this time of great uncertainty. But the Hound Dogs never came to be. Expansion to… That led to a push for expansion, causing the changes of additional divisions, wild card playoffs and more. California entrepreneur Harry Ornest’s bid to buy the team was approved before the deadline and the Blues remain in St. Louis today. But the Orlando bid had the backing of Amway Corp. president Richard DeVos. // 1. MLB only reluctantly added 9th and 10th teams to the mix for the exciting but totally unfair wildcard round. would be better if the expansion teams were Montreal AL east and white sox AL west, and NL expansion team was Jacksonville ,FL NL east, play 7 division teams 14 games. The expansion would seem to be off the table at this time. With its future in limbo, the Blues did not participate in that year’s NHL entry draft. The city sits right in the middle of a triangle of well-established franchises (St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Atlanta) and could never hope to carve out an adequate market share. The 1998 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the establishment of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 29th and 30th teams beginning play for the 1998 season.After initiating an expansion committee in March 1994, 27 groups representing nine cities submitted bids for the proposed expansion teams. Within three months of a laboar agreement, commissioner will announce timetable", "Baseball Ready to Add Miami and Denver Teams", "6 cities named finalists for 2 NL expansion teams", "Mack Pushing Commissioner; Wants Expansion Timetable", "Owners' Group Approves Denver, Miami Baseball: Final hurdle is vote by all owners. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29462/11-expansion-teams-just-missed-cut The NL had already picked up 2 AA franchises in Brooklyn and Cincinnati for the 1890 season, to go along with the original Boston and Chicago franchises and existing teams in Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The 1961 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the American League (AL). MLB has toyed with the idea of expansion… Despite the lack of current Major League Baseball expansion plans, a group that wants to bring a club to Nashville is branding its potential team as the Nashville Stars. The team nickname comes with the context that there is no formal effort by the MLB to expand. Pros Pushed up against yet another failed bid for stadium funding in 2006, the Marlins decided to look at other markets, including San Antonio. They haven't expanded since 1998, but if there is MLB expansion, here are seven cities for new teams. If two teams are added to the league, MLB may decide to ditch the traditional six divisions in favor of eight divisions with four teams in each one—identical to the layout of the NFL. . This 12-team configuration … Details of expansion were hammered out in the 1990 CBA. [8] The Denver group chose to call their franchise the Colorado Rockies, the same name used as the National Hockey League franchise that played in Denver from 1976 to 1982. [5], U.S. The Hound Dogs’ unsuccessful bid wasn’t Memphis’s first brush with joining the NFL. MLB now sees gross revenues in excess of $10 billion, and with two new clubs the owners would likely garner $2 billion or more in expansion fees, not to mention new media rights revenues. In the end, the region lost out, partly due to its relatively small television market. The Tampa Bay Baseball Group sued MLB for allegedly reneging on an agreement to grant an expansion team to Tampa. Teams: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins, Washington Nationals Longest flight: Miami to Washington D.C. (2 hours, 35 minutes) While many NL East fans would hate to see their rivalries with the Mets and Phillies go, the Reds are greeted with open arms in … It’s also led to MLB expanding from only a handful of teams to 30 and yet still talk of more in the future. Players, owners must agree on labor contract ; the current pact expires Dec. 31. The Miami group chose to call themselves the Florida Marlins to broaden their fanbase to the entire state,[8] while reviving the nickname of a defunct minor league team. The prospective ownership group announced it preferred a nickname other than Senators and asked fans to submit ideas on a postcard. In mid-1974, the NHL awarded Vince Abbey, president of the World Hockey Association’s Seattle Totems, an expansion franchise to begin play in the 1976. The Bisons drew 1.15 million fans, which was more than three major league teams, despite the fact that stadium capacity was less than 20,000. [3][7] Expansion was approved unanimously by all teams in July 1991. His group planned to construct a 50,000-seat domed stadium if Mexico City were awarded a team. The NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis in 2001. The winning name, as selected by Washington Metropolitan Baseball President John Akridge, was Nationals. Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere relocated the team to her native St. Louis before the 1995 season and kept the Rams nickname. Washington, DC, which had been abandoned by two franchises in the previous 30 years, was another city contending for an expansion team in 1990. The MLB has not undergone an expansion since 1998 when the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (now the Rays) became the 29th and 30th teams to join the league. Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville, and St. Paul, which were among the nine candidates, were awarded expansion franchises over the next few years. The most feasible way to do that involves MLB expanding: adding two teams to bring their total to 32 teams. Buffalo built a baseball stadium more than three decades ago, in hopes of luring an MLB team. St. Louis didn’t have to wait long for an NFL team, though. The 1993 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in Major League Baseball (MLB) adding two expansion teams to the National League (NL) for the 1993 season: the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins (now known as the Miami Marlins). [6], In June 1991, the expansion committee accepted the bids of the Miami and Denver groups to debut in 1993. The Colorado Baseball Commission, led by banking executive Larry Varnell, was successful in getting Denver voters to approve a 0.1% sales tax to help finance a new baseball stadium. “We’re not in a position to deal with a market that size at this time, based on where the NHL is and where we need to expand in order to strengthen the league,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said. After Seattle and Tampa Bay were awarded teams, John Bassett moved his World Football League team from Toronto to Memphis and signed several NFL stars, including Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. After all, baseball, like all sports, has taken a huge financial hit, and there is still a lot of questions about the 2021 season.Add to that the fact that the current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2021 season. See also. The suit was settled in 2003, five years after Tampa's major league team, the Devil Rays (now simply the Rays), began play in the American League. . Rob Manfred sees MLB as a growth industry and wants to get to 32 teams. The goal is to present an official expansion proposal to MLB at the 2021 Winter Meetings in Nashville. Also, an advisory committee was formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group. NL East. total number of games would be 98 plus 48 plus 16 =162 games In 1990, Major League Baseball solicited bids for two expansion teams to join the National League starting in the 1993 season. A new club was started in Washington, D.C. and took the existing name of the Senators, as the previous team of the same name moved to Minneapolis–St. The idea of expansion has been muted before, but there’s no shortage of candidates. In 1892, the AA franchises in Baltimore, Louisville, St. Louis, and Washington joined the National League. It has the fastest growing large metro area and is the third fastest growing big city in America. [11], The Tampa Bay Baseball Group sued MLB for allegedly reneging on an agreement to grant an expansion team to Tampa. Having stadiums and some fan base focal points in the east and west can justify any division alignment. Retail executive Leonard “Boogie” Weinglass and Florida businessman Malcolm Glazer, the heads of the two prospective ownership groups of the Baltimore franchise, expressed interest in buying the Colts nickname from Indianapolis Colts owner Robert Irsay, but it wasn’t for sale. After awarding one of the two expansion teams to Charlotte, the NFL delayed the announcement of the second city to give St. Louis’s prospective ownership group time to resolve its issues, but the Stallions never made it out of the stable. It may be a bit off but there are cities who want a team … [9] An expansion draft to stock both franchises was set for November 1992. But upstate New York is far enough away from New York City that it could sustain its own team in an MLB expansion scenario. When the NFL expansion committee headed by current league commissioner Roger Goodell awarded franchises to Charlotte and Jacksonville in 1993, three other prospective teams with nicknames, logos, and color schemes already unveiled and season ticket deposits sold, were left disappointed. [1], Ten cities were considered serious candidates for the two spots: Buffalo, Charlotte, Denver, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Sacramento, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington, D.C.[2] The Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg and Pilot Field in Buffalo were built specifically to lure an existing or expansion MLB franchise. After Elvis Presley Enterprises, which controls the late singer’s licensing rights, became an investor, Dunavant nicknamed his prospective team the Hound Dogs. “We don’t see a wimpy little Hound Dog logo,” Presley Enterprises spokesman Todd Morgan told reporters. The league decided to add the Cleveland Rams from the AFL instead, in part because of its concerns about the travel costs to the West Coast. Both the NFL and NHL have 32 teams, or soon will, and MLB certainly must look at that and want in. This is how the new format might look. The NFL returned to the city before the 1996 season when the relocated Cleveland Browns franchise began play as the Baltimore Ravens. As one reporter noted, the logo, designed by the same advertising firm that created the logo for the Orlando Magic, was “strikingly similar to the logo used by Paramount Pictures Corporation for its recent baseball movie, Major League.”. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally. Bassett immediately began a push to join the NFL, capping a season-ticket drive with a telethon that garnered 46,000 pledges. With the COVID-19 pandemic the league may consider more than ever the need to introduce additional teams for the much needed cash injection. Local and regional companies—such as Erie Lake, Hensel Phelps Construction, KOA Radio, and the Rocky Mountain News—rounded out the group. An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. There were plans to expand the stadium to a capacity of 45,000 within 7 months if Buffalo was awarded a team. The last time the league expanded was 1977, when the Toronto Blue Jays joined the American League. An MLB expansion team in Buffalo has probably gotten a lot less likely in the last 30 years, but back in the 60s and 70s those league expansions would not necessarily look out of place with a Buffalo franchise. The adage that a rising tide lifts all boats is a mantra to keep in mind when considering expansion. “I was thinking, ‘the Nation’s Capital,’ but you couldn’t use Capitals, because of the hockey team. Owners will see a massive infusion of money should expansion happen. 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