The Los Angeles Angels and the "new" Washington Senators ushered in baseball's expansion in 1960, followed quickly by the Houston Colt .45s and the New York Mets. By 1998, ten additional franchises had been awarded with the Kansas City Royals, Seattle Pilots, Toronto Blue Jays, and Tampa Bay Devil Tays coming into the American League, and the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, and Arizona Diamondbacks to the National League. Since then, some of those teams have relocated or changed names, but TIME FOR EXPANSION BASEBALL tells the story of how each franchise was formed, built its team, and began play. Biographies of key players from each team's early years are also included, from early Angels like Eli Grba and Duke Maas to Senator Tom Sturdivant, from Seattle Pilots Tommy Harper and Lou Piniella to Seattle Mariners Julio Cruz and Rick Jones. Featuring a foreword by Tal Smith, who has done three separate stints in the Houston front office, and the contributions of 54 SABR members, TIME FOR EXPANSION BASEBALL also includes dozens of photos from team historical archives. CONTENTS: Which of the Expansion Franchises Had the Most Successful Draft?
 Maxwell Kates Rickey’s Folly: How the Continental League Forced Baseball Expansion
 Warren Corbett Mis-Management - The American League Expansion of 1960
 Andy McCue and Eric Thompson LOS ANGELES ANGELS
A Season in Homer Heaven: The Birth of the Los Angeles Angels 
Warren Corbett Duke Maas by Andrew Sharp Ted Kluszewski by Paul Ladewski Eli Grba by Chuck Johnson WASHINGTON SENATORS The Washington Senators Begin A New Term Chris Jones Dale Long by Gregory H. Wolf Bobby Shantz by Mel Marmer Tom Sturdivant by Bill Nowlin 
HOUSTON COLT .45s The Colt .45s and the Expansion Draft
Stephen D. Boren and Eric Thompson Here Come the Colts by David E. Skelton Bob Aspromonte by Mark Wernick Eddie Bressoud by Bill Nowlin Bob Lillis by Paul Geisler NEW YORK METS “The Name is Mets -- Just Plain Mets”
 Leslie Heaphy Choo Choo Coleman by David E. Skelton Gil Hodges by John Saccoman Hobie Landrith by Alan Cohen Expansion, Round Two: How Charlie Finley Blew Up Baseball
 Warren Corbett 
KANSAS CITY ROYALS Mr. K Brings Baseball Back to Kansas City Joseph Thompson Bob Oliver by John Struth Ellie Rodriguez by Steve Schmitt Hoyt Wilhelm by Mark Armour MONTREAL EXPOS “Les Expos Sont La” - The Expos Are Here Danny Gallagher Mack Jones by David E. Skelton Carl Morton by Tom Hawthorn Maury Wills by Glen Sparks SAN DIEGO PADRES It’s a Major League City or It Isn’t:
 San Diego’s Padres Step Up to the Big Leagues 
John W. Bauer Nate Colbert by Gregory H. Wolf Fred Kendall by Brian Geller Jerry Morales by Rick Bogovich SEATTLE PILOTS The Flight of the Seattle Pilots
 Bill Mullins Tommy Harper by Bill Nowlin Marty Pattin by Rick Bogovich Lou Piniella by John DiFonzo SEATTLE MARINERS Major-League Baseball Returns to the Pacific Northwest
 Steve Friedman Julio Cruz by Michael Marsh Rick Jones by Jeff Findley Dan Meyer by Paul Hofmann TORONTO BLUE JAYS The Birth of the Blue Jays
 Maxwell Kates Bill Singer by Joel Rippel Pete Vuckovich by Dale Voiss Ernie Whitt by Bob LeMoine 
COLORADO ROCKIES Welcome to the Time Zone with A Team Roger L. Kinney Brad Ausmus by Thomas L. Brown Joe Girardi by Mark Sternman Charlie Hayes by Rory Costello
 FLORIDA MARLINS