Baseball purists often celebrate the sport’s unchanging nature. The history of Major League Baseball is littered with the ghosts of franchises—teams and entire institutions that once anchored their cities before being uprooted or vanishing entirely.

The 1950s initiated a seismic shift, a pivotal decade where declining attendance and the lure of burgeoning West Coast markets shattered decades-long loyalties. While the painful move of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles captured the national imagination, it was far from an isolated incident.

Cities like Boston, St. Louis and Philadelphia lost charter franchises to new destinations seeking greater financial promise and modern ballparks. Some relocations are more than just business footnotes; they are deeply felt civic scars, representing lo

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