Major League Baseball Comes To Montreal

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One of the issues facing new league President Blank is the offer on the table from a syndicate headed by Ernest Savard. The group headed by the Canadien banker has made an offer to purchase the "Blank club" ,which is currently parkless and move it to Montreal. Name the club..

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One of the issues facing new league President Blank is the offer on the table from a syndicate headed by Ernest Savard. The group headed by the Canadien banker has made an offer to purchase the "Blank club" ,which is currently parkless and move it to Montreal. Name the club..

George Stallings and the Montreal Royals of the International League?
They were the Brooklyn Dodgers farm team (1939-60), and Delorimier Stadium
in downtown Montreal is where Jackie Robinson played.

[janduscframe]

It was a major league team according to this article in an old newspaper. I don't know what he planned to do with the Royals if he had succeeded in getting this major league franchise..

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It was a major league team according to this article in an old newspaper. I don't know what he planned to do with the Royals if he had succeeded in getting this major league franchise..

Is that *article* you speak of online? Can you let us all see the link?

Here's what I found out about this on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Savard

Just click on George Stallings, et al for more.

There was no Montreal franchise in the American Association or the
succeeding American League, nor the National Association or Nat'l League.
All these leagues would be considered *major league* and *NOT* minor.
I believe Montreal was a minor league franchise, i.e. Int'l League ref ?

As far as my searching has discovered.

[janduscframe]

It was the Boston Braves in 35.. I'll type in the article later today when I get home.. I suspect there were offers for clubs in the old days that never developed. I do wonder what effect, if any, there would have been on Jackie Robinson if the Braves had moved to Montreal and the Royals to ? and the Dodger farm team would have been in ?

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http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=38030



Oui,oui, Monsiuer, batting fourth La Great Bambino

[Augustin_"Gus"]

And what exactly made the Braves fieldless in '35? They had Braves field, didn't they?

[janduscframe]

I wondered the same thing. Anyone out there know? i

[Chicoutimi CP]

Looks like the Braves never played in another stadium than the Braves Field from 1915 to 1952...

[janduscframe]

Yet, I wonder why that article alluded that they were parkless. Was there perhaps a squabble with the lease during the offseason?

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And what exactly made the Braves fieldless in '35? They had Braves field, didn't they?

And they really sucked in 1935, finishing dead last in the N.L. @ 38-115 .248
and 61 1/2 games back.