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Originally Posted by nat
"Imagine if Mantle had played for Kansas City..."
...the Yankees would have traded Johnny Hopp (or whomever) for him, and everything else would be unchanged.
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Hah, KC was a long-time NY farm team - even after it putatively joined the majors - so, the Yankees would have just brought him up by demoting a couple of marginal players to the A's. If he had been found by another team before the Yanks, that team's owner likely would have turned him over for a case of cracked bats. Roger Maris was an example of that process.