The Lost Baseball Teams.

color home movies ever assembled of Major League Baseball from the 1930s through [Music] the60s and now the Lost teams during baseball's Golden Age Philadelphia Boston and St Louis each had a pair of Big League clubs but eventually these towns couldn't support both creating a trio of lost teams to be the second team in a city was to be barely a team at all you have to learn the art of recognizing small Pleasures if you're a second team in a city that doesn't [Music] win such was the case of the St Louis Browns of the American League who for 52 years played second class citizen to the NL Cardinals I can remember as a 16-year-old kid selling soda at a Cardinal ball game you could make $5 cuz you got a nickel free soda sold in a brownie ball game you'd be lucky to make 50 cents there was one year that the St Lewis Browns home attendance for the full season was about 85,000 not for a weekend for a full season it wasn't even the second team in St Louis in those days it was probably the second and a half or maybe the third team there were so many great players that the Browns had though back in like the 1920s they had players like George Syler and I remember when Ichiro uh broke his record for hits in a season uh sisler's name finally came back into print and a lot of people had no idea who he was because there's no Keeper of the flame when it comes to the St Louis Browns [Music] following the 1953 season the franchise moved to Baltimore Rec christened as the Orioles on September 27th 1953 the Browns played their last game I was playing in that game and uh they didn't have enough baseballs to finish the game so the foul balls would go up into the stands and the public address announcer had asked if the fans wouldn't please throw the ball back down on the field so we can finish the game I become a trivia question for having driven in the last run for the St Louis Browns it'll still be the record until somebody decides they want to bring a major league team back to St Louis and call it the St Louis brown but I don't think that's going to happen then there were the anemic Boston Braves with the Red Sox owning the city's heart the Braves existed as the bastard team of Beantown they were owned by a man named Amel fuches knew nothing about baseball but figured I'm signing the checks I might as well be the manager as well they had a lot of of rough years they were not one of the better clubs in the National League people might remember Babe Ruth finished his playing career with the Boston Braves in 1935 they ended up leaving Boston for Milwaukee in 1953 the following year 1954 baseball lost yet another team for over half a Century Philadelphia was the home to both the Phillies and Athletics but the city of L love showed diminishing affection for the A's as did everyone else for that matter well I grew up outside Cleveland in a little town called Bria and we were strictly Indians fans and they used to give tickets and of course they never gave you tickets for a good team it was usually Philadelphia but at one time the city's American League franchise was the premier ticket in town the A's had been one of the Giant and celebrated franchises of baseball in the 20s with the great Mickey Cochran and Jimmy Fox Connie mck had assembled all these stars like Al Simmons Lefty Grove and George eraw and by 1929 he had built a Dynamo of a team as both owner and manager for the club's first 50 Seasons Connie Mack was the Philadelphia Athletics the image of Max angular frame and suit and straw hat was as much a symbol of the franchise as the elephant on its sleeves regrettably for Mack the A's fortunes at the gate rarely matched their fortunes on the field so he routinely sold off his best players dismantling a wouldbe dynasty in order to keep the franchise [Music] afloat after that breakup of the team the Philadelphia Athletics took the elevator to the basement and stayed there year after year after year during the 1954 season it suddenly became apparent that the A's were in big trouble I went to see 45 games they played that year and they lost 41 of them it was a pretty bad team and that's basically why the A's ultimately were the team that left town the A's went to Kansas City and were sold to Arnold Johnson broke our heart [Music] s the Philadelphia A's Boston Braves and St Louis Browns teams of the golden age that are lost but not forgotten

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Keywords: baseball, teams

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Length: 5min 43sec (343 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 23 2011