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The Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Cowboys, and Washington Nationals folded. The Baltimore Orioles transferred to Minor League Baseball and were replaced by the Brooklyn Gladiators. The Brooklyn Gladiators then folded mid-season, and the Baltimore Orioles returned to the AA to finish the season.
In their inaugural season, the Vigilantes finished last in the South division at 39-51, but drew 92,960 fans, third-most in the eight-team league, despite playing out of a makeshift ballpark set up on the campus of Saddleback College. A 4,500-seat ballpark was proposed at a cost of $6 million scheduled to open in 1998.
The MLB "Batter" logo was commissioned by the Major League Baseball Centennial Committee, and was introduced by the new Baseball Commissioner, Bowie Kuhn, to be used in preparations for, and celebration of, the 1869–1969 Professional Baseball Centennial Celebration held July 21, 1969, in Washington, DC.
The following is a list of United States Major League Baseball teams that played in the National League during the 19th century.None of these teams, other than Athletic and Mutual, had actual names during this period; sportswriters however often applied creative monickers which are still, mistakenly, used today as "team names" following a convention established in 1951.
Although the league is conventionally listed as a major league, this status has been questioned [5] by a number of modern baseball historians, most notably Bill James in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, who found that the contemporary baseball guides did not consider the Union Association to be a major league: the earliest ...
According to Dior, the logo design cost between $10,000 and $25,000, [4] and was finished in one afternoon. [3] Dior presented the original design to Major League Baseball. It was created using a magic marker. [6] It was originally intended to be only for Major League Baseball's 100th anniversary season, but it continues to be used to this day.
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