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() When I was a kid, and I guess I happened to be during that short period in the 50-60s, I couldn't get the Braves (Milwaukee) when each of us kids had a team for our ball games with cards. OK so I got the Yankee's farm team. I mean the KC A's 
"In 1954, Chicago real estate magnate Arnold Johnson bought the Philadelphia Athletics and moved them to Kansas City, Missouri. Although he was initially viewed as a hero for making Kansas City a major-league town, it soon became apparent that he was motivated more by profit than any regard for the baseball fans of Kansas City. He had long been a business associate of New York Yankees owners Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail and Del Webb, and had even bought Yankee Stadium in 1953, though the league owners forced Johnson to sell the property before acquiring the Athletics. "
Del Webb? That Del Webb? Small world.
"You could say Del Webb got in on the ground floor of Nevada's casino industry. He was the contractor Bugsy Siegel hired to finish the Flamingo, which Siegel had taken over from Billy Wilkerson. As A.D. Hopkins writes in The First 100, "Webb walked a thin and dangerous line with Siegel, but it was all in a life's work." It probably didn't hurt that his client always paid in cash." Las Vegas Adevisor story
So lets see, the guy who was friends with Del Web, who then bought the A's, who moved to Oakland, and now they might move to Las Vegas, where Del Webb was one of the people involved with the early development of The Strip, and later formed a corporation to own multiple casinos.
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