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The Pilots had a total attendance of 677,944 people for the season, 20th out of 24 teams in Major League Baseball, and their average attendance per game, 8,268, was also 20th. [20] Seattle finished above fellow cellar dweller teams like the Cleveland Indians , Chicago White Sox , Philadelphia Phillies , and the expansion San Diego Padres .
In 2020, Major League Baseball extended major league recognition to seven Negro leagues: [42] Negro National League (NNL I), 1920–1931; Eastern Colored League (ECL), 1923–1928; American Negro League (ANL), 1929; East–West League (EWL), 1932; Negro Southern League (NSL), 1932; Negro National League (NNL II), 1933–1948; Negro American ...
Major League Baseball (MLB), the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning in 1961, eventually reaching 30 teams with its most recent expansion taking place in 1998. MLB has discussed preparations for another round of expansion.
Houston Cougars baseball (4 C, 2 P) R. Rice Owls baseball (3 C, 3 P) S. Sugar Land Space Cowboys (2 C, 1 P) T. Texas Southern Tigers baseball (2 C, 2 P)
Prior to the 1963 season, Major League Baseball (MLB) initiated a reorganization of Minor League Baseball that resulted in a reduction from six classes to four (Triple-A, Double-A, Class A, and Rookie) in response to the general decline of the minors throughout the 1950s and early-1960s when leagues and teams folded due to shrinking attendance caused by baseball fans' preference for staying at ...
The Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association played in Houston from 1972 to 1978 until the WHA dissolved. They won the Avco World Trophy as champions of the WHA in 1974 and 1975. Houston has three teams in World TeamTennis : The E-Z Riders in 1974, the Astro-Knots in 1982 and 1983, and the Wranglers from 2005 to 2007.
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues is a book by Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Shecter and first published in 1970. The book is a diary of Bouton's 1969 season, spent with the Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade.
The following is a list of ballparks previously used by professional baseball teams. In addition to the current National (NL) and American (AL) leagues, Major League Baseball recognizes four short-lived other leagues as "major" for at least some portion of their histories; three of them played only in the 19th century, while a fourth played two years in the 1910s.