1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft
1960 Washington Senators | |
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Expansion season | 1961 |
First selection | Eli Grba (Los Angeles Angels) |
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The 1960 MLB expansion draft was held by
The draft, held in Boston, site of American League headquarters, had been scheduled for Tuesday, December 13, 1960, but had to be postponed one day due to a heavy snowstorm that struck the New England region.[1]
Ground rules
As with all MLB expansion lotteries prior to
Hasty expansion sowed draft confusion
Reacting belatedly to the
Playing catch-up to the National League, under a much tighter deadline with no ownership groups, management or stadia yet in place, the Junior Circuit was forced to wait until November 17, 1960, to officially award an expansion franchise to Washington, D.C.,[2] to replace the recently-relocated Twins. Because it also intended to enter the Los Angeles metropolitan market, then controlled by Walter O'Malley, principal owner of the Dodgers, the American League was compelled to negotiate an indemnification agreement with O'Malley before the Los Angeles franchise could be granted. Finally, on December 6, 1960—one week before the expansion draft was expected to be held—the Angels franchise was officially created and awarded to Gene Autry.
Because each new team had not had the time to assemble a
The situation is described by authors Andy McCue and Eric Thompson in their 2011
Results
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References
- ^ Scripps HowardNews Service. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
- ^ a b McCue, Andy, and Thompson, Eric (2011), "Mismanagement 101: The American League's Expansion of 1961." The National Pastime 2011, Archived 2019-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Society for American Baseball Research
External links
- "1960 MLB Expansion Drafts". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 16, 2019.