[Magdalen] beisbol Q?

[Christopher Hart]

It was done when MLB decided to finally balance the two leagues at 15 teams
each, 3 divisions of 5 in each league. One NL team had to move to the AL
and Houston got picked because the NL Central had 6 teams and the AL West
only had 4 and a team in Texas would fit into the western division.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It was a shock to me when they played (and beat!) the Yankees in the wild
> card game.  From the L.O.N.G wikipedia article, they switched to the AL in
> 2013.
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been out of the loop for soooo long, ever since I left Tennessee
> and
> > went on the road and TBS was no longer broadcasting Braves games. Will
> > someone please tell me when the Houston Astros became an AL team and
> > why????? This is crazy! They were always a NL team and Braves rival to
> the
> > best of my recollection.
> >
>



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