Archive for Expansion

Andy Etchebarren, Jackie Hernandez and Ron Fairly dedicated their lives to baseball.

This year’s champions had a troubled ancestor.

On the 50th anniversary of its demolition, a look back at the Angels’ first home park.

The Pickles are a dilly of a team, even though they’re not professional.

What if baseball had broadened its appeal earlier?

The booming Dallas area has good arguments for a second major league team.

What is revealed in the pages of an artifact from baseball’s past?

The rowdy adventures of two long-ago Astros, and other baseball miscreants.

The demographics of baseball have changed greatly over the history of the game, but not always in the way we’d expect.

Somehow, a second-year expansion team managed to produce a winning season.