Continental League

The Continental League was a third American professional baseball league planned alongside the American League and the National League , which was to begin in 1961 and caused quite a stir in the previous years.

On July 27, 1959, William Shea announced the creation of the third major league . The reason for this can be seen in the migration of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants from New York to California in 1957. As a result, New York, the largest city in the USA, suddenly no longer had its own baseball team in the National League. In 1959 and 1960, disputes with the other leagues related to this establishment dominated the sports gazettes. Eventually, Shea and other Continental League organizers were able to come to an agreement with the established major leagues. The founding of the league was withdrawn, but the existing leagues were given new places, two in the National League and two in the American League. The founding of the New York Mets baseball club followed, Shea had achieved his goal of anchoring professional baseball back in New York and stopped his efforts to establish the Continental League.

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Charles M. Schulz already addressed the impending establishment of the Continental League on July 22, 1957 in a Charlie Brown comic strip.