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MLB called for a four-team expansion to take place in 1971 at the 1967 Winter Meetings, the first expansion since 1962. However, there was a complication: influential U.S. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri was irate over the American League's approval of Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley 's arrangement to move his team to Oakland ...
The 1969 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1969 season. It was the first edition of the new playoff system introduced by MLB, coinciding with the beginning of the "Divisional Era." Each league expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams and was divided into two 6-team divisions.
September 1 – Labor Day action concludes in MLB's first season of divisional play, and there are three pennant races. In the National League West , only 5½ games separate five teams: the San Francisco Giants (75–59) lead the Cincinnati Reds (72–57) and Los Angeles Dodgers (73–58) by a half game, with the Atlanta Braves (73–63) three ...
With further expansion to the league, the 1969 season marked the first year of divisional play in Major League Baseball.The Atlanta Braves (along with the Cincinnati Reds) were placed in the NL West division, despite being located further east than the 2 westernmost teams in the NL East Division, the Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals.
In 1967, C. Arnholt Smith, owner of the PCL San Diego Padres (PCL), won a bid for an expansion team in the National League for the 1969 season. On May 27, 1968, the National League officially awarded a franchise to San Diego to commence play in the 1969 season [27] for a fee of $12.5 million for the team. [30]
1969: Baltimore Orioles: New York Mets: New York Mets 1970s. Year American League champion National League champion World Series champion 1970:
The 1969 Montreal Expos season was the inaugural season in Major League Baseball for the team. The Expos, as typical for first-year expansion teams , finished in the cellar of the National League East with a 52–110 record, 48 games behind the eventual World Series Champion New York Mets .
The 1969 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 88th season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 78th season in the National League.The Cardinals went 87–75 during the season and finished fourth in the newly established National League East, 13 games behind the eventual NL pennant and World Series champion New York Mets.