If I’m not mistaken, the franchise moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers, a rare eastward team relocation.
The Pilots ownership had been promised a park-deal which the mayor and city council fell through. It was the same kind of situation for the SuperSonics...they were told that a new arena would come, and it just never did.
Selling the Pilots to a used car dealer named Bud Selig would reverberate the baseball world for decades with Bud (as commissioner, no longer as owner) forcing the Brewers into the National League and eventually extorting the Astros as their replacements in the American League with their hideous Designated Hitter rule.
May Bud rot in hell.
The St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.
The Boston Braves moved eastward from Milwaukee to Atlanta.
The St. Louis Browns to Baltimore (Orioles)
The original Baltimore Orioles to New York (Highlanders)
Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee (Brewers)
4 out of 13.