[Magdalen] beisbol Q?

[Jay Weigel]

OK, now I'm really confused. What happened to the other Texas baseball
team? Wasn't there one called the Texas Rangers?

On Friday, October 9, 2015, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>>
> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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