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SABR36 Presentation: Relocation, Expansion and the Battle to Bring Major League Baseball Back to Seattle (Anthony Giacalone)
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SABR36 Presentation: Relocation, Expansion and the Battle to Bring Major League Baseball Back to Seattle (Anthony Giacalone)
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| By The SABR Office |
2-2:30pm, Superior-Municipal Room
"Let the bleeps talk to me. I'm a seller, too!": Relocation, Expansion and the Battle to Bring Major League Baseball Back to Seattle (T09)
Anthony Giacalone
Eight years after the Pilots, Seattle got the Mariners. But the story is much, much more complicated than that, involving current teams trying to relocate to greener pastures, cities clamoring for MLB franchises, Congressional pressure, conflict between the two leagues, collective bargaining, and the reserve clause. The story has been told before (for instance, by last year's convention keynoter) from the viewpoint of Toronto, but little has been said about Seattle's place in the shenanigans. Anthony Giacalone will lead us through the Kuhnian morass of false promises and political blunders, culminating in the ironic timing of Peter Seitz's free agency decision.
Anthony Giacalone (agiacalone@carolina.rr.com) is an independent historian and baseball writer, currently writing a cultural history of baseball, race and the media in the 1960s and 1970s. He has been a contributor to Baseball Think Factory for four years and writes a regular column on the American League Central. He attended his first baseball game at Comiskey Park in 1972; relief pitcher Dave Lemonds gave him a baseball.
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| | Created On: 2006-05-30 |
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Page Link: http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1729,34,0
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