On May 27 , 1968  – San Diego and Montreal are awarded NL expansion teams for 1969 and Dallasites were quick to blame Houston’s Judge Roy Hofheinz for the snub. Montreal doesn’t even have a minor league team at the time. One Dallas paper prints a picture of the judge with a bullseye over it. The Astros celebrate by clubbing the Dodgers, 10-1. Dallas-Ft. Worth would get the old Washington Senators team in 1972.

The San Diego Padres, led by Dodgers GM Buzzie Bavasi, are helped by Walter O’Malley. O’Malley publicly: “We could only pick two cities and I’m glad San Diego was one.” Privately: “I’m voting for Buzzie, not the city of San Diego.”