Philadelphia Athletics are expelled for violating the league’s constitution

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On November 22, 1890 – At the American Association annual meeting in Louisville, the Philadelphia Athletics who lost the last 22 games of the season, are expelled for violating the league’s constitution. The Quakers, a team which had played the 1890 season in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ in the defunct Players’ League, replaces the ousted financially-strapped franchise, plus entries from Boston, Washington and Chicago, replacing Syracuse, Toledo and Rochester.