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"It is unknown why no second team was placed in Cincinnati to compete with the Cincinnati Reds."

American League president Ban Johnson was a sports editor in Cincinnati during the early 1890s and knew the market well enough to know that the city could not support two major league teams. The city tried in 1891 with the National League Reds, on the west side, and American Association Kelly's Killers, on the east side, and proved to be a total disaster.

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I'm not an expert on site rules, but this page seems to violate them. Clearly, the writer(s) feel that franchise moves were primarily good and necessary, making the page read like copy from the MLB offices. The moves were controversial "in some circles" -- you mean like the fans in the cities that lost teams? Who else would you expect to care?

Granted, the game needed to expand with the country's population, but that's only one element here: multiple teams moved more than once (Braves, A's), and some of the moves were eastward (Browns to Baltimore, Braves to Atlanta). Washington got a new Senators team, for a decade, at which point they too left town.

Pro sports franchises are privately owned, and so have the right to move, but when they do so, it rips at the heart of the prior home-city: we're seeing this now with the expected moves of the NFL's Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers. The page could present both sides without sounding like an MLB press release. ProfessorAndro (talk) 21:35, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]