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In 1919, Branch Rickey and Sam Breadon purchased shares of a Texas League team based out of Houston, thus making the St.

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national ...