The pluses, minuses and stark reality of a looming MLB realignment
Who knows what baseball will look like by then?
Manfred's latest plans for surgery on America's pastime were revealed Sunday night, when the commissioner discussed the potential for MLB expansion and geographic realignment, potentially ending the existence of the American and National Leagues.
The gut instinct is repulsion, partly from the source of this proposal and his casual indifference to the tradition of a game more greatly linked to past generations than any American sport. The National League was born (1876) barely a decade after the end of the Civil War. The American League opened shop (1901) before the Wright brothers' first flight.
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