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.By J. G. TAYLOR SPINK: ST. LOUIS, Mo.—In a sudden, spectacular, double-barrelled action on March 13, club owners of both major leagues were summoned to emergency meetings for the purpose of shifting the franchises of the Boston Braves of the National League to Milwaukee and the St. Louis Browns of the American League to Baltimore. Commissioner Ford Frick called on National League executives to assem ble in Tampa, Fla., March 16, to ratify a request by President Lou Perini of the Braves to move his Boston franchise into Milwaukee, where he already owns the Brewers of the American Association. President Will Harridge of the American League issued his call for a gathering of his club owners on the same day at Clearwater to act on the request of Bill Veeck, Browns’ president, to shift his St. Louis club to Balti more. The Orioles’ franchise in the International League would be moved to either Hartford, Conn., or “some Canadian city,” presumably Quebec, at its population of 205,600, while the Brewers were to be shifted to ‘oledo. Perini’s eleventh-hour decision to move his Braves into the Wisconsin city came in the form of an appeasement move for a disappointed Mil waukee public which, only a few days before, had seen its chance to get major league baseball slip away when the Boston owner refused to accept $500,000 to move his American Association Brewers to permit the Browns to move in. This will mark the first time in 50 years that the major league map will undergo a change. The International League, in vacating Baltimore, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COL. 4)
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St Louis Sporting News
St Louis, Missouri, US
Wed, Mar 18, 1953
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