Continental League

The Continental League was a proposed third major league for baseball. The CL was the idea of New York City attorney William A. Shea, proposed in November of 1958, a year after the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers had moved to California. The league was formally announced in July 1959. Former Dodgers president Branch Rickey was named president of the Continental League. The CL would consist of eight teams: one in New York (the New York Mets) and seven others to be placed in cities that did not have Major League Baseball. The CL dissolved without playing a game, in August of 1960, after both the American League and the National League announced plans to expand by adding two teams each in new cities (i.e., ones without Major League Baseball).

Cities of the Continental League

• Atlanta, Georgia
• Buffalo, New York
• Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas
• Denver, Colorado
• Houston, Texas
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
• New York City, New York
• Toronto, Ontario