The Mets Police: Cool Continental League Article In Times

Cool Continental League Article In Times

Cool! Nice article about Bill Shea and the Continental Baseball League. You youngsters who are scratching your head should read....

SPORTS / BASEBALL

Memorabilia From the What-If Drawer

By MICHAEL SHAPIRO

Published: July 23, 2009

Branch Rickey and William Shea pushed for a third Major League, the eight-team Continental. But in the end, it gave way to expansion.

What's sad is in a few years I'll have to explain to people who Bill Shea was.

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DyHrdMET said :

July 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM

a few months ago, i came across a video of Branch Rickey as a celebrity guest on the 50s game show "What's My Line" where he was noted as the founder of the Continental League.

http://rememberingshea.blogspot.com/2009/05/branch-rickey-discusses-new-baseball.html

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