Watch this franchise move

Many sports teams have developed long relationships with their fans, because the franchises have stayed in that city for a very long time. Some teams have been in the same city for over 100 years. One team in particular, the Chicago Cubs have been in the same city for the last 136 years!!! Most teams will never be that lucky.

On May 21, 1918 what looked on the surface to be just an ordinary baseball game was played at Buffalo Park in Sacramento, California between the Sacramento Senators and the Salt Lake City Bees of the Pacifc Coast League. No one at the time really had the slightest idea what made this game so special.

In 1909 the city of Sacramento received an expansion team for the Pacific Coast League. After a few years the team ran into problems and was transferred late in the 1914 season (September 5) to San Francisco. After the season the franchise was transferred again, this time to Salt Lake City.

Just before the 1918 season began, the charter franchise of Portland, Oregon was transferred to Sacramento, as the baseball climate in Sacramento had since improved. If this were just a game where the old franchise came back town to visit its old haunts and fans as the visiting club that would be one thing, but this story continues on.

The new Sacramento Club did very well in its new home. The club played for the next 43 seasons in Sacramento. That was until the franchise was transferred again, this time to Honolulu, Hawaii. The City of Sacramento's history in the PCL was far from over and as was the history of its 1909-14 team. The 1909 team's stay in Salt Lake City did not last forever or even until the 1926 season, as the team was transferred back to California, this time to the balmy climate of Hollywood. The franchise continued on the move through two other cities through the end of the 1973 season, when it was transfered back to you guessed it Sacramento.

So the visiting club on this particular day was really not just the franchise that once belonged to Sacramento but, its future club as well!! For the record the Bees won the game by a score of 6-4.

Both clubs continued to move, as the 1909-14 franchise's second stay in Sacramento would last for only three seasons before moving yet again. Today this franchise is in its 12th city, Round Rock, Texas. The 1918-60 club has been in Colorado Springs, Colorado since 1988. Once again Sacramento is back in the league, a member since 2000 when its current team moved from Vancouver, British Columbia. So far no rumors of any of the these teams will be moving any time soon but, you never know. The current Sacramento Club is enjoying great success with its parent club a short distance away in Oakland. The Round Rock Club has the same type relationship with the Texas Rangers and the Colorado Springs Club with a tie up with the nearby Colorado Rockies.

So what is on tap for tomorrow? How about a single shift made in the NBA? See you then!!