MLB is Rattled by a Third League
The NL-AL duopoly is threatened after the Giants and Dodgers abandon NY
Continental League president, Branch Rickey (center), conferring with MLB Commissioner, Ford Frick (right), in the fall of 1960. The Continental League challenged MLB's established order, forcing baseball's first expansion since the modern game was born.
For years, the NFL couldn’t shake off the AFL from nipping at its heels and the NBA couldn’t break th…