http://www.historynet.com/baseball-in-the-west-2.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=baseball-in-the-west-2 From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 16 May 2012 13:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.historynet.com/baseball-in-the-west-2.htm#comment-799066 Jonathan Ball Tue, 01 May 2012 22:56:56 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683495#comment-799066 Mr. Lalire writes, "It wasn't until 1958 that modern-day Major League Baseball teams operated west of St. Louis—after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco." That's incorrect. The Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City, MO for the 1955 season, and played there through 1967, before moving to Oakland for the 1968 season. Mr. Lalire writes, "It wasn't until 1958 that modern-day Major League Baseball teams operated west of St. Louis—after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco." That's incorrect. The Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City, MO for the 1955 season, and played there through 1967, before moving to Oakland for the 1968 season.

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