| Baseball fans only wish they knew the whole story. | | | | club owners are just like ole bossy, The grass always |
| There is something in the wind and before it blows | | | | looks greener on the other side of the |
| over we might just have to weather the | | | | fence.Somebody should call the moving vans for it's |
| storm.Seriously, good fans, are you totally aware that | | | | time to move on to greener pastures. Test the waters |
| the Montreal Expos no longer exist?Our Montreal | | | | and see if we will sink or swim at least we get new |
| Expos are now our Washington Nationals.Things | | | | uniforms.I will summarize some of our team and city |
| happen and unless you follow the game almost daily | | | | changes without fanfare or details:Boston |
| you could find yourself clueless. What is the old | | | | Braves--Milwaukee Braves--Atlanta Braves |
| saying? "If you snooze you loose." This shift from | | | | Brooklyn Dodgers--Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Montreal to Washington is not such a big deal except | | | | New York Giants--San Francisco Giants |
| for the fact that many fans just may not have | | | | Milwaukee Brewers--St. Louis Browns--Baltimore |
| noticed.The history of our game of baseball is a | | | | Orioles |
| constant changing of players from one uniform to | | | | Philadelphia Athletics--Kansas City Athletics--Oakland |
| another and teams from one city to another. If you | | | | Athletics |
| want to get a capsule report to review some of the | | | | Washington Senators--Minnesota Twins |
| history and changes just move the mouse over to the | | | | Los Angeles Angels--California Angels--Anaheim |
| refresh button.Very quickly I'm going to try to bring | | | | Angels |
| some history just to refresh the scene.Old history | | | | Washington Senators--Texas Rangers |
| major league baseball or professional team in the late | | | | Seattle Pilots--Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1800's roughly 1870 it was known as the National | | | | Oh! Yea. |
| Association then it evolved into the National League | | | | Montreal Expos--Washington NationalsTo cap it all off |
| and a companion group of competitors called the | | | | if I only had me a cap from each of the original teams |
| American Association.Then calm and cooler heads | | | | plus the new teams then I would be chopping in high |
| determined we could all have a ball, ballgame that is, if | | | | cotton. Hope you baseball fans enjoy this quick review |
| we simply agreed to cooperate. The baseball world | | | | of the changes from city to city with our game of |
| became the National League and the American | | | | baseball and where it goes.Batter Up---Let's Play |
| League around 1901.Now we got popcorn, cracker | | | | Ball.Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) talking at |
| jacks, cold colas and the turnstiles are clicking clacking | | | | you and for you at it's all about baseball.The teams, the |
| and the club owners were hearing that sweet sound | | | | cities and the baseball parks are for our enjoyment. |
| of Ka-Ching.From Associations to Leagues to two (2) | | | | Teach a youngster the game and he will always have |
| well organized Major Leagues the National and | | | | fun. |
| American Leagues of baseball.Baseball teams and the | | | | |