This business with the Dodgers isn’t the first time Major League Baseball as taken over a team. You all remember the Rangers’ thing last year. That wasn’t total control, of course, but it was something. More significant, however, were when the Expos in 2002 and the 1936 Boston Bees.
The Boston Bees? Yep. Or as they were known before and after that, the Braves. Today The Common Man details that sordid little bit of baseball history over at The Platoon Advantage. Go learn something, whydontcha?
And if you are too painfully young to remember 2002, go over to FanGraphs to read Jonah Keri’s take on the damn nigh tragic takeover of the Montreal Expos.
I have this feeling the Dodgers thing won’t be as painful as all of that. They’re worth a lot of money, have a great ballpark and there are no doubt lots of people who would love to step in and take over once the instant messiness with Frank McCourt is straightened out.
But until that happens, let us learn from history a bit.