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...National League last week gave Lou Penni, owner of the Boston Braves the kind of green light that the American league had just refused to Bill Veeck and the St. Louis Browns (TIME, March 23): permission to move his franchise. Hereafter, Perini & Co. will be known as the Milwaukee Braves. Milwaukee's minor-league Brewers will move to Toledo...
...Boston was conservatively glum over the loss of a not-so-cherished institution. St. Louisans in general shrugged-though a hard core of St. Louis Browns fans was outraged, and Mayor Joseph M. Darst filed an injunction against the chief instigator of it all, Browns Owner Bill Veeck. In such fashion last week, the cities most concerned reacted to the possibility of the first major-league franchise shifts in 50 years-the scheme to move the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, the Boston Braves to Milwaukee...
There was just one hitch: under the rules, both moves had to be approved by the other club owners of the American and National Leagues. The American League owners struck first. After a long, wrangling meeting in Tampa, Fla. this week, they announced their decision: Veeck's plan to switch the Browns to Baltimore was "hasty and haphazard...
Asked whether he had abandoned his attempt to move to Baltimore, Bill Veeck, who claims the Browns lost $400,000 last year, snapped back: "I haven't abandoned anything. I've been abandoned...
...Veeck, a flamboyant gladhander, relishes the feud. Publicity-shy Saigh prefers to let his team do the talking. After Veeck hired hard-bitten Rogers Hornsby, an old Cardinal favorite, to manage the Browns, Saigh felt forced to retaliate by getting baseball's most colorful character. Saigh fired Manager Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion and hired Eddie Stanky. Veeck, who refuses to be topped, quickly hired Marion as a player-coach...