[Homer_J_Simpson]

Champions Subdue Senators, 12-4, 3-1 – 2
28,918 See Dodgers Halt Phillies, 4-5 – 2
Giants Will Use Open Date Today To Get Ready for Dodger Games – 3
Browns Overcome White Sox, 10-9, 7-5 – 3
Late Red Sox Drive Tops Athletics, 4-1 – 3
Lanier of Cardinals Shuts Out Cubs, 5-0 – 3
Tigers’ 11 Blows Down Indians, 8-5 – 4
Offer for Bees’ Stars Denied by Cubs’ Owner – 4
Today’s Probable Pitchers – 5
Major League Leaders – 5
Minor League Basebal – 5
Major League Baseball Standings – 5

I never thought of the Orioles as being a minor league team. Baltimore has been big league as long as I can remember.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

They were a great old-school minor league for a long time. I mean they were a minor league team before minor league teams were affiliated with specific teams. These teams were basically means for people outside major league cities to see pro baseball. The Orioles had a great history from about the 1890s to 1920. They would make some extra money by selling major league teams their stars, which is why Babe Ruth was an Oriole before he was a Red Sox. I believe it's also where he got his nickname.

At some point in the 50s the Browns (thanks to the poster for showing me my White Sox lost a doubleheader to the "mighty" Browns) moved to Baltimore and took the name "Orioles."

[pepsionice]

If you go and read a complete history of baseball teams...it’s a major shocker to examine what we know of baseball today and what existed in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Philadelphia A’s were bought and went through this financial dead period...then ended up in Kansas City as part of the breakout after WW II toward the west....and then get moved again to Oakland.

The Browns were a financially dead team for years and years...then moved to Baltimore and became the O’s.

The only three teams to concrete themselves down...never mention moving or actually move? The Yanks, the Cubs, and the Detroit Tigers. Virtually every other team has seriously threaten a move or actually made a move.

[GreenLanternCorps]

The first Orioles were teams in the 19th Century.

Then a team had the name for the first three years of the American League (1901-1903). They moved to New York and became the Highlanders, and later achieved some notoriety under the name “Yankees”. You might have heard of them.

The were two more minor leagues teams in the International League from 1903-1914 and from 1916 to 1953.

The St Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the current incarnation of the Orioles in 1954.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Champions Subdue Senators, 12-4, 3-1 – 2

"Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League."