Pearl Harbor attack sidelined Browns move to LA in ’42.

No team in the first 50 years of the Big Leagues were more pathetic than the St. Louis Browns. They could always be counted on for my beloved White Sox to prevail against in the early 50’s. Never won a World Series and only made the 1944 Series due to having less regulars gobbled up by Uncle Sam to win WWII. Owner Donald Lee had sought to move them to LA for the ’42 season. Arrangements were being made to use long distance trains, even early air travel for the westward treks of the all eastern based Bigs. Approval was likely at the scheduled league meeting. But an unexpected event the day before derailed to the move…Pearl Harbor. The Browns got their only World Series appearance two years later before nosediving into the AL dungeon. They were mercifully moved to Baltimore in ’54. Maybe if the Browns had made that '42 LA move, the Bums would still be toiling in Brooklyn.